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zero-sum

/zeer-oh-suhm/US // ˈzɪər oʊˌsʌm //

零和,零和式,零和式的,归零

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or denoting a system in which the sum of the gains equals the sum of the losses: a zero-sum economy.

Examples

  • Not quite, but at one point the temperature registered 29 below zero, with 21 inches of snow.

  • The longer someone stays well, the lower their chance of relapsing, although that possibility never becomes zero.

  • Is it True that “Gays vs. Traditionalists are a Zero-Sum Game”?

  • Islamic State brought “peace, autonomy, zero corruption, low crime-rate,” he Tweeted last month.

  • Willima and Kate raised a similar sum at a private dinner for just 30 philanthropists on Sunday night.

  • It was such a magnificent sum that Sol did not feel like taking the familiarity with it of mentioning it aloud.

  • Of which the sum is that all the parties to the case are evidently, for the time being, Protestants!

  • I've tried to teach lots of folks; an' sum learns quick, an' some don't never learn; it's jest 's 't strikes 'em.

  • But the day he planned to start was very cold—the mercury stood twenty-seven below zero.

  • The King now increased it to the enormous sum of two shilling and ten pence.