winner take all
Victor claims everything
Winner take all describes a system where the victor claims the entire prize or benefit, with nothing left for runners-up.
In elections, winner-take-all means the leading candidate receives all delegates or electoral votes from a district, regardless of margin.
The phrase extends to any high-stakes competition where second place gets nothing: It's a winner-take-all economy for tech companies.
- victoryDefeating an opponent
- last man standingFinal competitor remaining
- finishBring to completion
- riskPossibility of harm
- rat raceExhausting competitive work routine
single elimination · zero-sum game · electoral college · monopoly · market concentration · big fish · triumph · top dog · supremacy · power grab · first-past-the-post · champion · dominance · economic inequality · maximize · epitome · gamble · majority
- gambling lingoall in, ante up, raise the stakes, go all in, high roller
- game show elementsquiz show, trivia, wheel spinning, panel show, talent show
- betting poolsoffice pool, football pool, football pools, survivor pool, bracket pool
- neurocomputingneural networks, neural plasticity, action potential, neural circuits, hidden layers
- competitionscontests, tournaments, match, matches, game
- electionsballot, ballots, voter registration, candidates, polls
winner take allrevenue sharing
Distributing income among stakeholders
profit sharing · fair share · sliding scale · participation trophies
winner take allproportional representation
Seats allocated by vote share
consociationalism · ranked-choice voting · ranked choice voting · parliamentary system · coalition government
winner take allcooperative
Jointly operated enterprise
collaborative · inclusive · win-win · non-zero-sum · egalitarian
winner, take, winning, winnable, unwinnable, taker, takes, taking, taken