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An illicit money-making investment scheme in which early investors are paid primarily or wholly from the funds of later investors, and which eventually collapses to the detriment of the most recent participants.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: scheme, strategy
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
34 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Mandarin:
層壓式推銷 /层压式推销
(céngyāshì tuīxiāo)
— illicit money-making scheme
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Chinese Mandarin:
非法傳銷 /非法传销
(fēifǎ chuánxiāo)
— illicit money-making scheme
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Danish:
pyramidespil
— illicit money-making scheme
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Danish:
pyramideforetagende
— illicit money-making scheme
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Dutch:
piramidestelsel
— illicit money-making scheme
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Dutch:
piramidesysteem
— illicit money-making scheme
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Dutch:
piramidespel
— illicit money-making scheme
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Finnish:
pyramidihuijaus
— illicit money-making scheme
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French:
vente pyramidale
— illicit money-making scheme
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French:
pyramide de Ponzi
— illicit money-making scheme
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Georgian:
პირამიდის სქემა
(ṗiramidis skema)
— illicit money-making scheme
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Georgian:
ფინანსური პირამიდის სქემა
(pinansuri ṗiramidis skema)
— illicit money-making scheme
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Georgian:
ფინანსური პირამიდა
(pinansuri ṗiramida)
— illicit money-making scheme
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German:
Schneeballsystem
— illicit money-making scheme
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German:
Pyramidensystem
— illicit money-making scheme
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Hungarian:
piramisjáték
— illicit money-making scheme
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Icelandic:
pýramídasvindl
— illicit money-making scheme
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Italian:
marketing piramidale
— illicit money-making scheme
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Italian:
sistema piramidale
— illicit money-making scheme
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Japanese:
無限連鎖講
(mugenrensakō)
— illicit money-making scheme
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Japanese:
ネズミ講
(nezumikō)
— illicit money-making scheme
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Norwegian:
pyramidespill
— illicit money-making scheme
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Persian:
طرح هرمی
(tarh-e herami)
— illicit money-making scheme
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Polish:
piramida finansowa
— illicit money-making scheme
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Portuguese:
esquema de pirâmide
— illicit money-making scheme
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Romanian:
schemă piramidală
— illicit money-making scheme
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Russian:
финансовая пирами́да
(finansovaja piramída)
— illicit money-making scheme
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Spanish:
esquema piramidal
— illicit money-making scheme
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Spanish:
estafa de pirámide
— illicit money-making scheme
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Spanish:
fraude de pirámide empresarial
— illicit money-making scheme
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Swedish:
pyramidspel
— illicit money-making scheme
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Turkish:
piramit sistemi
— illicit money-making scheme
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Turkish:
piramit şeması
— illicit money-making scheme
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Turkish:
saadet zinciri
— illicit money-making scheme
