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Noun: pyramid scheme
  1. 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

Derived forms: pyramid schemes

Type of: scheme, strategy

Encyclopedia: Pyramid scheme

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