Usually means: One's gain equals another's loss.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word zero-sum:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. zero-sum: Merriam-Webster
  2. zero-sum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. zero-sum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. zero-sum, zero-sum: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Zero-Sum, zero-sum: Wordnik
  6. zero-sum: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. zero-sum: Wiktionary
  8. zero-sum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. zero-sum: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. zero-sum: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. zero-sum: Dictionary.com
  12. zero-sum: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Zero-sum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. zero-sum: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. zero-sum: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. zero-sum: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Zero-Sum: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (zero-sum)

adjective:  Of any system where all gains are offset by exactly equal losses.

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