Sekirov Dictionary

speculant

noun 3
adjective 1
forms 3

noun3

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A speculator; one who makes speculative (high-risk) investments.
- They moreover also belonged to those securities which speculants neglected at the beginning, which is perhaps sufficiently explained by the position of the rubber market and by the rubber price. — 1935
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A profiteer or illegal trader.
- In this way the danger threatening the population from unscrupulous speculants was averted and the prices were kept down. — 1915
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One who thinks about speculative subjects; one who dreams, extrapolates, or conjectures.
- To shew that the plan is not the vague dream of a speculant, Mr. Jones sent full-sized patterns pinned on a sheet of paper cut exactly to the length and width of material stated. — 1882

adjective1

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Speculative or hopefully wondering.
- Banks stocked with fishers are richer in dreams than signs of fish; the lines lead under uncircled surfaces sharp into fathoms of speculant green. — 1984

forms

speculants · more speculant · most speculant

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