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PIRAMIDAL [5 records]

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Record 1 2012-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sales (Marketing)
  • Merchandising Techniques
  • Restrictive Practices (Law)
CONT

A multi-level distributorship occurs when a person involved in a sale or distribution is expected to solicit others to sell or distribute, forming multi-levels of distribution. Included in these levels is the promise that the initial person receives not only a percentage or commission for goods sold but also a certain rebate or commission based on the number of persons signed up, forming a sales pyramid. These schemes create the false impression that one can get rich merely by signing up a number of people in the program who will then in turn have an incentive to sign up a number of people below each of them, without ever really having to sell any products. These schemes almost always fail, and you run the risk that you are participating in an illegal scheme.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vente
  • Techniques marchandes
  • Pratiques restrictives (Droit)
DEF

Forme de vente consistant à faire acheter par des personnes, auxquelles sont promises des situations dans la firme, des stocks de marchandises pour les revendre à d'autres, qui, alléchées par des promesses semblables, devront à leur tour rechercher de nouveaux adhérents.

OBS

Certaines législations considèrent le système [vente pyramidale] comme illégal.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ventas (Comercialización)
  • Técnicas mercantiles
  • Prácticas restrictivas (Derecho)
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Record 2 2003-09-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
DEF

... [refers to a corallite] shaped like a pyramid, with angular edges.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[...] un polypier [de Tétracoralliaire est dit] "pyramidale lorsqu'il [est] fait en pyramide [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Paleontología
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Record 3 2003-09-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineralogy
DEF

Having the symmetry of a "pyramid" .... An open crystal form consisting of three, four, six, eight, or twelve nonparallel faces that meet at a point.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralogie
OBS

[...] les faces principales ou prédominantes se rencontrent en pointes opposées; les cristaux ont un aspect de pyramide, simple ou double.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Mineralogía
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Record 4 2003-09-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
OBS

Pyramid-shaped.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Botánica
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Record 5 2002-09-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radio Transmission and Reception
  • Telecommunications Facilities
DEF

A horn flared in two planes, with a square or rectangular aperture.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Émission et réception radio
  • Installations de télécommunications
DEF

Cornet en forme de tronc de pyramide à base rectangulaire

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Radiotransmisión y radiorrecepción
  • Instalaciones de telecomunicaciones
DEF

Bocina en forma de tronco piramidal de base rectangular.

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