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speculator /ˈspɛkjuːleɪtə /noun1A 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...- 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.
- 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...- They might say that I haven't proven any health risk from GM foods, and that I am just an 'armchair speculator'.
- Our intellectual fate is no longer subject to the moods of speculators, in whose thought genius comes dangerously close to mania.
- Those same speculators on how space weather may have killed the satellite are rarely refuted or challenged in public.
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