winner-take-all
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.76 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to a contest, election, or other competition in which only the winner is rewarded and none of the losers receive anything.
adj
Of a market in which a product or service that is only slightly better than its competitors receives a disproportionately large share of revenue.
adj
Of a neural network model: organized so that neurons in a layer compete with each other for activation.
Example Sentences
- "You need luck in poker tournaments, because in the nature of this winner-take-all style of play, there will be several occasions when you cannot avoid putting all your money in the pot."
- "Under winner-take-all elections, many minority candidates find it nearly impossible to win."
- "[S]he volunteers to take her sister's place at the annual "Hunger Games", a bloody winner-take-all competition in which 24 teens fight to the death."
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Sports.