Definition 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.

Generic synonyms: Cheat, Rig, Swindle

Definition of Pyramiding

1. Noun. The practice of an athlete progressively increasing the dosage of an illegal drug to a maximum, and then progressively lowering it, between competitions so as to reduce the chances of being caught ¹

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Definition of Pyramiding

1. pyramid [v] - See also: pyramid

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyramiding

pyramidal tent
pyramidal tract
pyramidal tracts
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pyramidalizations
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pyramidally
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pyramidia
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pyramiding (current term)
pyramidion
pyramidism
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Literary usage of Pyramiding

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Investment and Speculation: A Description of the Modern Money Market and by Thomas Conway, Albert William Atwood (1914)
"pyramiding.—pyramiding is a practice whereby a man invests capital on a margin in a speculative transaction ; when the price has gone up a few points he ..."

2. The Investor's Catechism by Marcus Mathias Reynolds (1909)
"The same rule, only with reversed conditions, is applied in selling stock short on a margin. pyramiding is looked upon as very dangerous in speculation. ..."

3. Papers and Proceedings of the Annual Meeting by American Economic Association (1919)
"A priori, pyramiding of profits cannot permanently exist in a trade which is highly competitive, as is the produce business. Certain experts of the trade ..."

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