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• a massive monument with a square base and four triangular sides; begun by Cheops around 2700 BC as royal tombs in ancient Egypt

• a polyhedron having a polygonal base and triangular sides with a common vertex

• (stock market) a series of transactions in which the speculator increases his holdings by using the rising market value of those holdings as margin for further purchases

• enlarge one's holdings on an exchange on a continued rise by using paper profits as margin to buy additional amounts

• use or deal in (as of stock or commercial transaction) in a pyramid deal

• arrange or build up as if on the base of a pyramid

• increase rapidly and progressively step by step on a broad base

• large cylindrical or flattened mostly tropical insects with long strong legs that feed on plants; walking sticks and leaf insects

• usually tropical slender-bodied long-legged moth whose larvae are crop pests

• small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping; feeds on plant juices

• used especially of mail; paid in advance

• a small cellular inclusion consisting of a ring of DNA that is not in a chromosome but is capable of autonomous replication

• as the hard flattened scales of e.g. sharks