Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pyramid_scheme

1 sense of pyramid scheme

Sense 1
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)
       => scheme, strategy -- (an elaborate and systematic plan of action)