Definition of speculator in English:
speculator
noun ˈspɛkjuːleɪtəˈspɛkjəˌleɪdər
1A person who invests in stocks, property, or other ventures in the hope of making a profit.
financial speculators exploiting small changes in markets to make money
speculators are driving the price of oil higher
Example sentencesExamples
- Agribusinesses can transfer price risk to speculators by hedging against the grain they own.
- She's made a career of refusing to be seduced by the big-shouldered speculators selling California sensuality.
- Such monetary flows have necessitated redistribution of purchasing power, favoring consumers and speculators at the expense of domestic producers.
- The extraordinary growth of the market over the past decade has encouraged speculators intent only on turning a fast profit.
- By the mid-1980s, a few wealthy speculators held most of the continental certificates.
2A person who forms a theory or conjecture about a subject without firm evidence.
the opinions of philosophical speculators
speculators about the nature of the cosmos
Example sentencesExamples
- They might say that I haven't proven any health risk from GM foods, and that I am just an 'armchair speculator'.
- During the last 200 years, we have many interpretations of Bhagavadgita by different speculators.
- Those same speculators on how space weather may have killed the satellite are rarely refuted or challenged in public.
- Whatever virtues the Mayans might have had, predicting the future seems an unlikely one, which is something the speculators should realize.
- Our intellectual fate is no longer subject to the moods of speculators, in whose thought genius comes dangerously close to mania.
Definition of speculator in US English:
speculator
nounˈspekyəˌlādərˈspɛkjəˌleɪdər
1A person who invests in stocks, property, or other ventures in the hope of making a profit.
financial speculators exploiting small changes in markets to make money
speculators are driving the price of oil higher
Example sentencesExamples
- Such monetary flows have necessitated redistribution of purchasing power, favoring consumers and speculators at the expense of domestic producers.
- She's made a career of refusing to be seduced by the big-shouldered speculators selling California sensuality.
- The extraordinary growth of the market over the past decade has encouraged speculators intent only on turning a fast profit.
- Agribusinesses can transfer price risk to speculators by hedging against the grain they own.
- By the mid-1980s, a few wealthy speculators held most of the continental certificates.
2A person who forms a theory or conjecture about a subject without firm evidence.
the opinions of philosophical speculators
speculators about the nature of the cosmos
Example sentencesExamples
- They might say that I haven't proven any health risk from GM foods, and that I am just an 'armchair speculator'.
- Those same speculators on how space weather may have killed the satellite are rarely refuted or challenged in public.
- During the last 200 years, we have many interpretations of Bhagavadgita by different speculators.
- Whatever virtues the Mayans might have had, predicting the future seems an unlikely one, which is something the speculators should realize.
- Our intellectual fate is no longer subject to the moods of speculators, in whose thought genius comes dangerously close to mania.