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单词 speculative builder
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speculative 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.
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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.
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