speculant
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noun
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.
The thereby reduced inter currency interest rate in favour of the attacked currency decreases the financing costs of the speculants and, therefore, further increases the incentive to speculate.
A profiteer or illegal trader.
In this way the danger threatening the population from unscrupulous speculants was averted and the prices were kept down.
There were many agents among the Russian speculants.
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.
This supposed possibility is straightway converted into an actuality, with no better support than that it has occurred as a possibility to the brain of a speculant.
adj
Speculative or hopefully wondering.
I essayed to arise out of my chair, that I might render a beseeming homage unto so excellent a presence but was prevented; amazement having fixed me agaze and half risen, as a statue of wonder; leaving to mine eyes only the power of a speculant admiration.
In the new order of things—four years still leaves it new to a slow-moulded temperament—a feeling of detachment which is an old failing grows stronger, a sense of walking about among my kind, speculant, aloof.
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6They 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.
WiktionaryThe thereby reduced inter currency interest rate in favour of the attacked currency decreases the financing costs of the speculants and, therefore, further increases the incentive to speculate.
WiktionaryHow much further do we plan to bow to the gurus of Wall Street, to the speculants in Tokyo and London?
WiktionaryI essayed to arise out of my chair, that I might render a beseeming homage unto so excellent a presence but was prevented; amazement having fixed me agaze and half risen, as a statue of wonder; leavin
WiktionaryIn the new order of things—four years still leaves it new to a slow-moulded temperament—a feeling of detachment which is an old failing grows stronger, a sense of walking about among my kind, speculan
WiktionaryBanks stocked with fishers are richer in dreams than signs of fish; the lines lead under uncircled surfaces sharp into fathoms of speculant green.
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