Engelsk substantiv: pyramid scheme | |||
1. | pyramid scheme (om erkjendelse) 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 | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | scheme, strategy | ||