pump-and-dump scheme

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Noun pump-and-dump scheme has 1 sense

pump-and-dump scheme - an illegal scheme for making money by manipulating stock prices; the schemer persuades other people to buy the stock and then sells it himself as soon as the price of the stock rises
--₁ is a kind of contrivance, stratagem, dodge

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