speculation
noun
the contemplation or consideration of some subject.
overspeculation
-
a word derived from
speculation.
Example Sentences
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Both sides also agreed to limited controls overspeculation in urban real estate, gradual abolition of sharecropping and raising tenant farmers' share of the profits from 53% to 58%.
From Time Magazine Archive
Inflation has contributed to both the stock market overspeculation and Wall Street's glut of back-office paperwork.
From Time Magazine Archive
These indicated prosperity, not overspeculation, thought the President.
From Time Magazine Archive
A thoroughgoing deflation of overspeculation seemed wholesome and proper to the President.
From Time Magazine Archive
The distress of the previous year continued, English internal affairs owing partly to a commercial panic brought on by overspeculation in railways, and partly to a repeated failure of the crops.
From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Edwin Emerson
