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
Broader: scheme: an elaborate and systematic plan of action | Unrelated: erodium: geraniums of Europe and South America and Australia especially mountainous regions
Broader: scheme: an elaborate and systematic plan of action | Unrelated: effect: an impression (especially one that is artificial or contrived)
Broader: scheme: an elaborate and systematic plan of action | Unrelated: anthology: a collection of selected literary passages
Broader: scheme: an elaborate and systematic plan of action | Unrelated: timeserver: one who conforms to current ways and opinions for personal advantage
Broader: scheme: an elaborate and systematic plan of action | Unrelated: majority: the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part
Broader: scheme: an elaborate and systematic plan of action | Unrelated: snowblindness: temporary blindness caused by exposure to sunlight reflected from snow or ice
Broader: scheme: an elaborate and systematic plan of action | Unrelated: reserve: the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary
Broader: scheme: an elaborate and systematic plan of action | Unrelated: weapon: any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting
Broader: scheme: an elaborate and systematic plan of action | Unrelated: topsail: a sail (or either of a pair of sails) immediately above the lowermost sail of a mast and supported by a topmast
Broader: scheme: an elaborate and systematic plan of action | Unrelated: sphecoidea: families Sphecidae and Stizidae