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pyramid scheme
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Noun pyramid scheme has 1 sense
- pyramid scheme(n = noun.cognition) Array - 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; Array is a kind of scheme, strategy
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