pyramid scheme

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Noun pyramid scheme has 1 sense

pyramid scheme - 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
--₁ is a kind of scheme, strategy

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