0 a way of deceiving investors (= people who give money to a company hoping to get more back) by using the money they give to pay interest to existing customers rather than investing it --
1 a way of deceiving investors in which money that a company receives from new customers for investment is not invested for them, but is used instead to pay interest that is owed to existing customers: --
He used the investors' retirement savings to conduct a Ponzi scheme.
We can complete it step by step however long the road is and it can't be completed however short the road is if you don't even mark your footprint.
Vi kan slutföra det steg för steg hur lång vägen än är och den kan inte slutföras hur kort vägen än är om du inte ens markerar ditt fotavtryck.