speculator
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6.7
- noun
- /ˈspɛkjʊˌleɪtər/
:
conjeturador
- And even if Iran did not threaten the strait, speculators, fearing possible supply disruptions, would bid up the price of oil, possibly triggering a wider economic crisis at an already fragile moment.
Examples
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Although granted, that then leads us into the whole conversation about why we have oil speculators in the first place.
Blog text (28) -
"The powers that be in the government really don't understand the difference between investors and speculators," Stewart added.
Blog text (28) -
But the quarrel should not be between labor and capital, but between the non-producing speculator on the one hand and labor and capital on the other.
Blog text (33) -
Speculators would correct the Fed's error only if at least one speculator anticipated that at least one other speculator underestimated the size of the needed correction.
Academic text (1992) -
A good speculator often forms opinions about market trends without having access to all the facts.
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The speculator made claims about the company's future, despite not knowing much about its operations.
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Many consider a speculator to be someone who predicts events without having substantial evidence.
Synonyms
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4.9
A person who gives an answer without enough information
A person who believes something is true without checking the facts
A person who makes ideas to explain things in science or art
A person who offers an idea as a starting point for an argument
Antonyms
How Reliable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Speculator comes from the Latin root specere (and the shorter spec) which means 'to look', and you can see the same root in spectator and inspect. So a speculator in sense 1 is someone who 'looks' at ideas and makes guesses without enough facts, which is why the word means a person who forms theories without solid evidence.