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NEGATIVE SUM GAME Definition & Legal Meaning

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Decision theory’s ‘lose-lose’ situation. All participants lose as the negatives or losses outweigh the positives or winnings, and no one leaves with anything positive or any winnings. Also refer to positive sum game and zero sum game.

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