Term: 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
Candidate hypernym: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples → 1
Candidate hypernym: number: a select company of people → 0
Candidate hypernym: coat of paint: a layer of paint covering something else → 0
Candidate hypernym: loblolly: thick gruel → 0
Candidate hypernym: grimes' golden: yellow apple that ripens in late autumn; eaten raw → 0
Candidate hypernym: dime: a United States coin worth one tenth of a dollar → 0
Candidate hypernym: double time: a fast marching pace (180 steps/min) or slow jog → 0
Candidate hypernym: keratoacanthoma: skin tumor that grows rapidly (especially in older people) and resembles a carcinoma but does not spread; it usually disappears spontaneously, often leaving a scar → 0
Candidate hypernym: trachurus: the scads (particularly horse mackerels) → 0
Candidate hypernym: voice: something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression → 0
Candidate hypernym: reed bunting: European bunting inhabiting marshy areas → 0