Speculant
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Speculant is a noun meaning A speculator; one who makes speculative (high-risk) investments.
Meaning
A speculator; one who makes speculative (high-risk) investments.
More Meanings
- A profiteer or illegal trader.
- One who thinks about speculative subjects; one who dreams, extrapolates, or conjectures.
- Speculative or hopefully wondering.
Example Sentences
There were many agents among the Russian speculants.
A third example would be a speculant that enters into the market purely on a direction view.
How much further do we plan to bow to the gurus of Wall Street, to the speculants in Tokyo and London?
For instance, on 6 July 1945, authorities stated that the saboteurs and the speculants ‘will be hit without mercy’.
Word Forms
- speculants
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