Usually means: Recruitment-based, profit-driven fraudulent scheme.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word pyramid scheme:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. pyramid scheme: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pyramid scheme: Merriam-Webster
  3. pyramid scheme: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pyramid scheme: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pyramid scheme: Vocabulary.com
  6. pyramid scheme: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. pyramid-scheme, pyramid scheme: Wiktionary
  8. pyramid scheme: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. pyramid scheme: Dictionary.com
  10. Pyramid scheme: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. pyramid scheme: Rhymezone
  12. pyramid scheme: FreeDictionary.org
  13. pyramid scheme: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. pyramid scheme: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Pyramid scheme: bizterms.net
  5. Pyramid scheme: Moneyterms
  6. Pyramid Scheme: Investopedia
  7. Pyramid scheme: Financial dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pyramid scheme: The Skeptic's Dictionary

(Note: See pyramid_schemes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pyramid scheme)

noun:  An illicit money-making investment scheme whereby early investors are paid primarily or wholly by later investors. Eventually all such schemes fail to the detriment of recent (later) investors.

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