prisoner's dilemma

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
prisoner's dilemma

▶noun (in game theory) a situation in which two players each have two options whose outcome depends crucially on the other's simultaneous choice, exemplified by two prisoners separately deciding whether to confess to a crime.

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