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  1. pyramid schemenoun

    Synonyms:
    pyramid selling scheme

  2. pyramid schemenoun

    An illicit money-making investment scheme whereby early investors are paid primarily or wholly by later investors. Eventually all such schemes fail to the detriment of recent (later) investors.

    Synonyms:
    pyramid selling scheme

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  1. pyramid schemenoun

    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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  1. Timo Soini:

    We need a 'Grexit', there are no easy solutions, but if Greece continues in the euro, it means more aid packages and the pyramid scheme continues.


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