Usually means: Strategic game involving cooperation, betrayal.
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  1. prisoner's dilemma: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. Prisoner's Dilemma, Prisoner's Dilemma (novel), Prisoner's dilemma, Prisoner's dilemma (disambiguation), Prisoners dilemma, The Prisoner's Dilemma, The Prisoner's Dilemma (Prison Break): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. prisoner's dilemma: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
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  2. Prisoner's Dilemma: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
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  5. prisoners dilemma: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Prisoner's dilemma)

▸ noun:  The prisoner's dilemma is a game theory thought experiment involving two rational agents, each of whom can either cooperate for mutual benefit or betray their partner ("defect") for individual gain.
▸ noun:  a 1988 novel by American author Richard Powers.
▸ noun:  The prisoner's dilemma is a standard example in game theory.

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