Search Result：pyramid scheme
pyramid scheme 
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(TTS Sound)Overview of noun pyramid_scheme
The 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)