scheme vs pyramid scheme

pyramid scheme vs scheme

scheme and pyramid scheme both are nouns.

scheme is a verb but pyramid scheme is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
scheme	Yes	No	Yes	No
pyramid scheme	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, pyramid scheme is a hyponym of scheme; that is, pyramid scheme is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than scheme:

scheme: an elaborate and systematic plan of action
pyramid scheme: 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 structure the scheme collapses with most of the participants losing the money they put in

Other hyponyms of scheme include contrivance, dodge, stratagem, counterterrorism, game plan, game plan, bubble, house of cards, playbook, game, plot, secret plan, waiting game, wheeze, incentive program, incentive scheme, counterproject.

scheme (noun)	pyramid scheme (noun)
an elaborate and systematic plan of action	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 structure the scheme collapses with most of the participants losing the money they put in
an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world
a schematic or preliminary plan
a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole

scheme (verb)	pyramid scheme (verb)
form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner
devise a system or form a scheme for

Difference between scheme and pyramid scheme

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