racket
fraudulent scheme
illegitimate enterprise | an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit |
| basic training | the initial period of training for new military personnel, involves intense physical activity and behavioral discipline |
basic
staple | (usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant |
| basic point defense missile system | a shipboard missile system |
skeen arch
skene arch
scheme arch
diminished arch | an arch whose height is less than half its width |
| basic cognitive process | cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge |
fundamentals
basics
fundamental principle
basic principle
bedrock | principles from which other truths can be derived, first you must learn the fundamentals, let's get down to basics |
outline
schema
scheme | a schematic or preliminary plan |
basic assumption
constatation
self-evident truth | an assumption that is basic to an argument |
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 |
| Basic English | a simplified form of English proposed for use as an auxiliary language for international communication, devised by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards |
| BASIC | a popular programming language that is relatively easy to learn, an acronym for beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code, no longer in general use |
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 |
incentive program
incentive scheme | a formal scheme for inducing someone (as employees) to do something |
basic dye
basic color
basic colour | a dye that is considered to be a base because the chromophore is part of a positive ion |
| basic iron | pig iron containing a high percentage of phosphorus, used in making steel by a process that removes the phosphorus |
| basic slag | slag produced in making steel, low in silica but having large amounts of calcium phosphate, useful as fertilizer |
scheme
intrigue
connive | form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner |
| scheme | devise a system or form a scheme for |
| basic | of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base |
| basic introductory | serving as a base or starting point, a basic course in Russian, basic training for raw recruits, a set of basic tools, an introductory art course |
| basic | pertaining to or constituting a base or basis, a basic fact, the basic ingredients, basic changes in public opinion occur because of changes in priorities |
basic
canonic
canonical | reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality, a basic story line, a canonical syllable pattern |