speculative
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7.3
- adjective
- /ˈspɛkjʊlətɪv/
- Specialized
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especulativo
- And the effect of that has been to turn it into what is essentially a speculative asset.
- speculative real estate
- speculative investments
- speculative stocks
All it is, is a, is a speculative vehicle that I could trade.
- All it is, is a, is a speculative vehicle that I could trade.
- Eventually, if The thing is really just speculative, it deflates again.
- The objective was to guarantee guarantee the highest returns to speculative financial capital.
- And I think you need to, you need to be aware of Bitcoin as something other than like a scary speculative asset.
- Every time you have a new breakthrough technology, you almost always it is accompanied with a speculative bubble.
- But an artist might then at least make a little bit of a piece of that, like ridiculous speculative trading.
- And as I said, you know, Bitcoin is a speculative money, but it's based upon is based upon the principles.
- Admittedly, most of that, most of the volume is speculative, but there are real world uses of these new payment rails.
- So given that it's some of them argue again, it's highly speculative at this point.
Examples
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Most oil trades are speculative and do not result in physical delivery of oil.
Academic text (2004) -
Selecting exotic wood for speculative investment is a highly risky undertaking.
Academic text (1997) -
So I think silver will catch up as it and, and therefore it is a good speculative investment.
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And so that really confirmed to me last December that we were going into a very highly speculative stock market environment.
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Investing in our Class A common stock is highly speculative and involves risk.
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Look, Amazon.com at some point was a speculative investment.
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That type of speculative finance is what drove the value of FTX.
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But what this is is a high-risk, speculative commodity.
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Unlike the other hypothetical corporations, Corporation XYZ owns fifty acres of land as a speculative investment.
Academic text (2017) -
Investing in cryptocurrencies can be very risky; many experts consider it a speculative venture.
Synonyms
Antonyms
How Risky
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3.6
- Specialized
20
7.3
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3.6
89
4.1
- Specialized
31
4.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Speculative comes from an old Latin word specere meaning 'to look', and you can see the same root in words like spectator and inspect. People who 'speculate' were thought of as those who 'looked for' chances to make money, so a speculative investment is one that depends on hoping for profit and is therefore risky.