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English noun: pyramid scheme

1. pyramid scheme (cognition) a fraudulent scheme in which people are recruited to make payments to the person who recruited them while expecting to receive payments from the persons they recruit; when the number of new recruits fails to sustain the hierarchical payment structure the scheme collapses with most of the participants losing the money they put in


Broader (hypernym)scheme, strategy









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