pyramid scheme
pyramid scheme · pyramid schemes
финансовая пирамида
Schneeballsystem, Pyramidensystem
An illicit money-making investment scheme in which early investors are paid primarily…An illicit money-making investment scheme in which early investors are paid primarily or wholly from the funds of later investors, and which eventually collapses to the detriment of the most recent participants.
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1 sensesAn illicit money-making investment scheme in which early investors are paid primarily or wholly from the funds of later investors, and which eventually collapses to the detriment of the most recent participants.
Schneeballsystem, Pyramidensystem
финансовая пирами́даfinansovaja piramída
More definitions
- 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
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plural: pyramid schemes| Singular | pyramid scheme |
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