zero-sum game

Imagine a zero-sum game in which players only get points by taking them from someone else.

If we can do things together, then it is not a zero-sum game anymore.

Every president must remember that he is locked in a zero-sum game with his staff.

We wanted to get away from the idea that work was a zero-sum game.

It is in Japan's interest for this not to be a zero-sum game.

For the last six decades, in other words, the American economy has been much more of a zero-sum game than we might like to believe.

It's a zero-sum game; for everything that was added, something else had to come out.

In short, life is a zero-sum game: both of us cannot come out ahead.

However, their analysis was restricted to the special case of zero-sum games.

They recognized that international security is not a zero-sum game.