单词 | speculative builder |
释义 | > as lemmasspeculative builder a. Of persons: Given to, or engaging in, commercial or financial speculation. speculative builder, a builder who has houses erected without securing buyers in advance. Hence speculative-built adj. Cf. spec adj. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > [adjective] > trading > speculation > of speculator speculative1763 society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [adjective] > involving speculation > speculating enterprising1728 speculative1763 speculating1787 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > builder > [noun] > builder of houses > speculative developer1863 speculative builder1868 field ranger1876 private developer1911 land developer1961 society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > [adjective] > without guarantee of sale spec1958 speculative-built1960 1763 S. T. Janssen Smuggling 28 Several Persons, who go under the Denomination of Speculative Buyers, purchase Teas there, meerly on an Expectation of the Price rising afterwards. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. x. 140 The speculative merchant exercises no one regular..business. View more context for this quotation 1799 Hull Advertiser 6 Oct. 3/3 To keep down the price of corn which speculative men were trying to advance. 1813 W. Scott Let. Sept.–Oct. (1932) III. 360 Any rare printed book, which a speculative bookseller might purchase with a view to republication. 1868 1st Rep. Comm. Employment Children, Young Persons, & Women in Agric. 35 in Parl. Papers 1867–8 XVII. 95 Cottages..have been put up by speculative builders of the flimsiest materials. 1902 G. K. Chesterton Twelve Types 13 The colossal diagram of streets and houses is..the opium dream of a speculative builder. 1933 Archit. Rev. 74 120 There is a possibility, of course, that the speculative builder who has bought this estate is an intelligent man. 1960 Pidgeon & Crosby Anthology of Houses 94 2-storey, speculative-built terrace houses. 1973 Listener 25 Jan. 118/1 The idiocies and crudities permitted to the developer—or, as I prefer to call him, the speculative builder. < as lemmas |
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