Get-rich-quick

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Claiming to provide large profits quickly, with no realistic chance of success, in order to lure gullible investment victims. derogatory, idiomatic, not-comparable, often

    "Five companies offering get-rich-quick schemes to property investors have been shut down."

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"This is not a get-rich-quick scheme."

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