See winner-take-all on Wiktionary
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Barber, “Letters: Diversity on the Ballot”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-05-20:", "text": "Under winner-take-all elections, many minority candidates find it nearly impossible to win.", "type": "quote" }, { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 83, 98 ] ], "ref": "2012 March 13, Silas Lesnick, “Interview: The Hunger Games’ Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson”, in ComingSoon.net, retrieved 2014-05-20:", "text": "[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.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Of or pertaining to a contest, election, or other competition in which only the winner is rewarded and none of the losers receive anything." ], "id": "en-winner-take-all-en-adj-35iwzA-V", "links": [ [ "contest", "contest" ], [ "election", "election" ], [ "competition", "competition" ] ], "tags": [ "not-comparable" ], "translations": [ { "_dis1": "70 22 8", "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", 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