dishonest+scheme

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• scheme — [skiːm] noun [countable] 1. an official plan or arrangement that is intended to help people in some way: • a government training scheme for the unemployed 2. FINANCE an arrangement in which the government or an employer provides financial help to …   Financial and business terms

• scheme — I UK [skiːm] / US [skɪm] noun [countable] Word forms scheme : singular scheme plural schemes *** 1) a) British a plan that is developed by a government or large organization in order to provide a particular service for people a training scheme… …   English dictionary

• scheme — I n. 1) to concoct, cook up, devise, think up a scheme 2) to foil, thwart a scheme 3) a diabolical; fantastic; get rich quick; grandiose; nefarious; preposterous, wild eyed scheme 4) a scheme to + inf. (she concocted a scheme to get publicity) 5) …   Combinatory dictionary

• scheme — scheme1 [ skim ] noun count ** 1. ) a plan for achieving something, especially something illegal or dishonest: It sounds like just another crazy money making scheme. a scheme to do something: a scheme to import illegal foreign goods a ) BRITISH a …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• scheme*/*/ — [skiːm] noun [C] I 1) British a plan that is developed by a government or large organization in order to provide a particular service for people a training scheme[/ex] The proposed scheme should solve the parking problem.[/ex] Have you joined the …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• scheme — scheme1 W1 [ski:m] n [Date: 1500 1600; : Latin; Origin: schema arrangement, figure , from Greek, from echein to have, hold, be in a condition ] 1.) BrE an official plan that is intended to help people in some way, for example by providing… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• scheme — 1 noun (C) 1 BrE an official plan that is intended to help people in some way, for example by providing education or training: a government training scheme for the unemployed | a pension scheme 2 a clever plan, especially to do something bad or… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• Commitment scheme — In cryptography, a commitment scheme allows one to commit to a value while keeping it hidden, with the ability to reveal the committed value later. Commitments are used to bind a party to a value so that they cannot adapt to other messages in… …   Wikipedia

• pyramid scheme — noun 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… …   Useful english dictionary

• pyramid scheme — pyramid .scheme also Pon|zi scheme [ˈpɔnzi ski:m US ˈpa:n ] n a dishonest and often illegal way of selling ↑investments, in which money from people who ↑invest later is used to pay people in the system who have already invested …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• advance fee scheme — UK US noun [C] (also advance fee fraud) COMMERCE ► a dishonest business activity in which companies take money from customers as part of the payment for a loan, investment, etc. but never lend them the money, make the investment for them, etc …   Financial and business terms