マルチ商しょう法ほう

noun

multi-level marketing; MLM; network marketing; pyramid selling

Refers to a business model where participants earn money from their own sales and from the sales of people they recruit. Often carries a negative connotation in Japan, associated with pyramid schemes.

• マルチ商しょう法ほうは、時ときにねずみ講こうと混こん同どうされることがある。

  Multi-level marketing is sometimes confused with pyramid schemes.

• 彼かの女じょはマルチ商しょう法ほうで成せい功こうしたと言いっているが、周まわりは半はん信しん半はん疑ぎだ。

  She says she succeeded through MLM, but people around her are skeptical.