speculator
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6.2
- noun
- /ˈspɛkjʊˌleɪtər/
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especulador
- Which means from the perspective of a speculator, speculating on a Bitcoin ETF maybe a month or two after it launches could be really desirable.
- land speculators
- estate speculators
- successful speculators
This ploy failed and the speculators were wiped out.
- This ploy failed and the speculators were wiped out.
- Like, you know, customers of Shift Gold, these are big time speculators that don't actually want any gold.
- When FTX went bankrupt, crypto speculators began withdrawing their money from crypto exchanges, who then pulled money from the banks.
- Which means from the perspective of a speculator, speculating on a Bitcoin ETF maybe a month or two after it launches could be really desirable.
- And, and so I'm thinking long term, the speculator needs a quick flip.
- And you know, if you're a speculator, this you should probably should get out.
Examples
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Speculators who were heavily leveraged... were particularly affected as brokers called in their margins.
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Two members of the Prime Minister's office have been accused of selling information to property speculators.
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"His uncle is a land speculator!" and I would assure them that I knew and it was okay.
Academic text (2002) -
Everybody and his mother wants to be a speculator these days, and nobody knows what they're doing.
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Colonel Drake moved to New York where he lost his money as an oil speculator and also lost his health.
Academic text (2009) -
The truth is that speculators have always received the lion's share of the press, in good times and bad.
Academic text (2010) -
However, if the security becomes priced too highly, speculators will sell the security to profit from the mispricing.
Academic text (2005) -
The problem today is, in fact, caused by foreign speculators hoping to reap the benefits of a revaluation of the yuan.
Academic text (2005) -
It turned out that the Savings & Loan had already been robbed... not by armed bandits, but by speculators in Texas real estate.
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Many speculators lost money investing in the volatile stock market last year.
Synonyms
715
3.1
A person or company who gives money to a business to try to make money
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2.1
A person or company that buys and sells things to make money
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7.7
A person who makes quick risky trades to try to make money
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2.8
A person who buys and sells company shares to make money
Antonyms
How Risky
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Speculator comes from the Latin root specere which means 'to look' and is the same root in spectator. So a speculator in sense 2 is someone who 'looks for' chances to buy and sell with big risk, hoping to make a large profit.