Meaning

A speculator; one who makes speculative (high-risk) investments..

Definitions by Sense

1. A speculator; one who makes speculative (high-risk) investments.
2. A profiteer or illegal trader.
3. One who thinks about speculative subjects; one who dreams, extrapolates, or conjectures.
4. Speculative or hopefully wondering.

Example Sentences

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.

How much further do we plan to bow to the gurus of Wall Street, to the speculants in Tokyo and London?

A third example would be a speculant that enters into the market purely on a direction view.

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.

For instance, on 6 July 1945, authorities stated that the saboteurs and the speculants ‘will be hit without mercy’.

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.

Word Forms

• speculants
• more speculant
• most speculant

When Should You Use Speculant?

Use speculant when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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