get-rich-quick

adjective

Of a scheme, claiming to provide large profits quickly, with no realistic chance of success, in order to lure gullible investment victims.

“Get-rich-quick email scams are on the increase.”

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Meanings

adjectiveget-rich-quick (not comparable)
  1. derogatoryidiomaticnot comparableoftenOf a scheme, claiming to provide large profits quickly, with no realistic chance of success, in order to lure gullible investment victims.

    Get-rich-quick email scams are on the increase.

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

    Private companies have, traditionally, dominated Britain's railway history. The first railways were built by private individuals and groups, and by the late 1830s building a railway was considered the ideal 'get rich quick' scheme.

    2024 July 24, Richard Foster, “Rail reform has never been easy”, in RAIL, number 1014, page 28
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get-rich-quick. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/get-rich-quick

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Chicago

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