Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pump-and-dump_scheme

1 sense of pump-and-dump scheme

Sense 1
pump-and-dump scheme -- (an illegal scheme for making money by manipulating stock prices; the schemer persuades other people to buy the stock and then sells it himself as soon as the price of the stock rises)
       => contrivance, stratagem, dodge -- (an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade; "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track")