pyramiding

Definitions of pyramiding
  1. noun
    a fraudulent business practice involving some form of pyramid scheme e.g., the chain of distribution is artificially expanded by an excessive number of distributors selling to other distributors at progressively higher wholesale prices until retail prices are unnecessarily inflated
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    type of:
    cheat, rig, swindle
    the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
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