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: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: number: a select company of people
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: coat of paint: a layer of paint covering something else
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: loblolly: thick gruel
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: grimes' golden: yellow apple that ripens in late autumn; eaten raw
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: dime: a United States coin worth one tenth of a dollar
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: double time: a fast marching pace (180 steps/min) or slow jog
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: 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
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: trachurus: the scads (particularly horse mackerels)
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: voice: something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: reed bunting: European bunting inhabiting marshy areas