racket
fraudulent scheme
illegitimate enterprise | an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit |
air terminal
airport terminal | a terminal that serves air travelers or air freight |
bus terminal
bus depot
bus station
coach station | a terminal that serves bus passengers |
| job-oriented terminal | a terminal designed for a particular application |
railway station
railroad station
railroad terminal
train station
train depot | terminal where trains load or unload passengers or goods |
remote terminal
link-attached terminal
remote station
link-attached station | a terminal connected to a computer by a data link |
skeen arch
skene arch
scheme arch
diminished arch | an arch whose height is less than half its width |
terminal
terminus depot | station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods |
| terminal pole | a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves |
| terminal | electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access to a computer, has a keyboard and display |
terminus terminal figure
term | (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar, originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome |
| terminal emulation | (computer science) having a computer act exactly like a terminal |
outline
schema
scheme | a schematic or preliminary plan |
scheme
strategy | an elaborate and systematic plan of action |
| pump-and-dump scheme | an illegal scheme for making money by manipulating stock prices, the schemer persuades other people to buy the stock and then sells it himself as soon as the price of the stock rises |
| 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 |
| schema scheme | an internal representation of the world, an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world |
dodge
dodging
scheme | a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery |
color scheme
colour scheme | a planned combination of colors, the color scheme for this room was determined by an interior decorator |
system
scheme | a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole, a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going |
end
terminal | either extremity of something that has length, the end of the pier, she knotted the end of the thread, they rode to the end of the line, the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix |
incentive program
incentive scheme | a formal scheme for inducing someone (as employees) to do something |
| terminal leave | final leave before discharge from military service |
terminus ad quem
terminal point
limit | final or latest limiting point |
| terminal velocity | the constant maximum velocity reached by a body falling through the atmosphere under the attraction of gravity |
scheme
intrigue
connive | form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner |
| scheme | devise a system or form a scheme for |
| terminal | causing or ending in or approaching death, a terminal patient, terminal cancer |
concluding
final
last
terminal | occurring at or forming an end or termination, his concluding words came as a surprise, the final chapter, the last days of the dinosaurs, terminal leave |
| terminal | being or situated at an end, the endmost pillar, terminal buds on a branch, a terminal station, the terminal syllable |
| terminal | relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time, terminal examinations, terminal payments |
| terminal | of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery route, freight pickup is a terminal service, terminal charges |