Speculator

Quick meaning: Speculator is a noun meaning One who speculates; an observer; a contemplator.

Meaning

One who speculates; an observer; a contemplator.

More Meanings

1. One who forms theories; a theorist.
2. (rugby) Synonym of field goal.
3. (business, finance) One who speculates; as in investing, one who is willing to take volatile risks upon invested principal for the potential of substantial returns.

Example Sentences

a bold and paradoxical speculator

[…] in things of Fact, the People are as much to be believed, as the most subtle Philosophers and Speculators, since here sense is the Judge.

But it would be very unjust to think of all the Railway Members as speculators and simply out to feather their own nests, not that it is fair to think of George Hudson in this light alone.

He had inherited his not inconsiderable fortune from an American cousin, who had in his time been a successful speculator—a speculator not exactly in crops, which are notoriously kittle-cattle, but in official crop reports.

Word Forms

• speculators

Synonyms for speculator

Depending on context, synonyms include plunger.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include plunger, speculation, profiteer, speculist, speculant, speculatist.

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