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单词 speculator
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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.
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