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nouna massive monument with a square base and four triangular sides; begun by Cheops around 2700 BC as royal tombs in ancient Egypt
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nouna polyhedron having a polygonal base and triangular sides with a common vertextype of:
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verbarrange or build up as if on the base of a pyramid
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verbenlarge one's holdings on an exchange on a continued rise by using paper profits as margin to buy additional amounts
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verbincrease rapidly and progressively step by step on a broad basetype of:
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noun(stock market) a series of transactions in which the speculator increases his holdings by using the rising market value of those holdings as margin for further purchasestype of:
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verbuse or deal in (as of stock or commercial transaction) in a pyramid deal
Definition that contains pyramid
- pyramid arrange or build up as if on the base of a pyramid
- pyramid use or deal in (as of stock or commercial transaction) in a pyramid deal
- pagoda an Asian temple; usually a pyramidal tower with an upward curving roof
- giza an ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo; site of three Great Pyramids and the Sphinx
- obelisk a stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top
- khufu Egyptian Pharaoh of the 27th century BC who commissioned the Great Pyramid at Giza
- pyramidal resembling a pyramid
- saqqara a town in northern Egypt; site of the oldest Egyptian pyramids
- dogtooth a carved pyramidal ornament; used in 13th century England
- gizeh an ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo; site of three Great Pyramids and the Sphinx