(n) trade
business
commerce
commercial law
(P)
(n) maritime law
(n) unscrupulous (crooked, fraudulent) business practices
pernicious sales methods
(n) the selling of waste land (worthless property) by unscrupulous real-estate developers
(n) an unscrupulous business practice of making sales by posing as an inspector and declaring the need for replacing items
(n) amateurish (dilettantish) way of doing business
(n) homeworking scheme (scam)
(n) (unscrupulous) business practices based on an appeal to one's social conscience
(unscrupulous) sales methods used by someone falsely claiming to represent a charitable (social welfare) organization
(n) piggybacking marketing
the method of making sales by jumping on a bandwagon (like that of a boom, popularity, disaster, etc.)
(n) unscrupulous (crooked, fraudulent) business practices
pernicious sales methods
(n) fraudulent way of business, cajoling people into buying articles for an extremely high price by claiming they will bring good luck
(n) fraudulent sale of exorcism services (to people led to believe that they are possessed by evil spirits)
(n) multilevel marketing system
pyramid selling
chain referral
(exp) amateurish and haughty way of doing business
venturing into an unfamiliar line of business (and often failing)
