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Ponzi schemes

Ponzi schemes is the plural of Ponzi scheme.

Meaning of Ponzi scheme

Noun

Ponzi scheme (plural Ponzi schemes)

  1. A fraudulent scheme where earlier investors are paid with the money taken from new investors, giving the impression that the scheme is a viable investment.
    • Bernard L. Madoff, the one-time senior statesman of Wall Street who in 2008 became the human face of an era of financial misdeeds and missteps for running the largest and possibly most devastating Ponzi scheme in financial history, died on Wednesday at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, N.C. He...2021 April 14, Diana B. Henriques, “Bernard Madoff, Architect of Largest Ponzi Scheme in History, Is Dead at 82”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    Ponzi scam

Questions about Ponzi schemes

What is Ponzi schemes the plural of?
Ponzi schemes is the plural of Ponzi scheme.

Words near Ponzi schemes in the dictionary

  1. Ponzi game
  2. Ponzi games
  3. ponzi scam
  4. ponzi scams
  5. Ponzi scheme
  6. Ponzi schemes
  7. Ponziani
  8. Ponzianis
  9. Ponzied
  10. Ponzies
  11. Ponzis

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