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Definition of Speculator

1. Noun. Someone who makes conjectures without knowing the facts.

2. Noun. Someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains.

Definition of Speculator

1. n. One who speculates. Specifically: (a) An observer; a contemplator; hence, a spy; a watcher.

Definition of Speculator

1. Noun. (business finance) One who speculates; as in investing, one who is willing to take volatile risks upon invested principle for the potential of substantial returns. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Speculator

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Speculator

speculates speculating speculation speculations speculatist speculatists speculative speculative damages speculative fiction speculative fictions

speculative philosophies speculative philosophy speculatively speculativeness speculativity speculator (current term) speculatorial speculators speculatory speculist

speculists speculoos speculum speculum forceps speculums sped spede spee speech speech-endowed

Literary usage of Speculator

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of Commerce by Clive Day (1907)
"Services of the speculator to commerce. — The class of speculators has grown up in the course of the century, to assume such risks. ..."

2. A History of Commerce by Clive Day (1907)
"Services of the speculator to commerce. — The class of speculators has grown up in the course of the century, to assume such risks. ..."

3. A History of Commerce by Clive Day (1914)
"Services of the, speculator to commerce. — The class of speculators has grown up in the course of the century, to assume such risks. ..."

4. A History of Commerce by Clive Day (1914)
"Services of the speculator to commerce. — The class of speculators has grown up in the course of the century, to assume such risks. ..."

5. A History of Commerce by Clive Day (1907)
"Services of the speculator to commerce. — The class of speculators has grown up in the course of the century, to assume such risks. ..."

6. The Third Power: Farmers to the Front by James Andrew Everitt (1903)
"THE WILEY speculator. In Frank Norris's great novel, "The Pit," is this: "They call it buying and selling, down there in "La Salle Street. ..."

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