peculator
noun
a person who is guilty of peculating.
peculators
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pluralof peculator.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Ben runs away to Chicago, sin city, carnival to a million peculators in wheat, meat and railways.
From Time Magazine Archive
He could elect whether he would pay out the funds on appropriations that would place the money in the hands of the peculators, or would apply them to appropriations that were honest and necessary.
From The Disfranchisement of the Negro The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 6 by John L. Love
None but the rich speculators and quartermaster and commissary peculators have a supply of food and fuel.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones
To speculators and peculators that prowled around the public offices and army he was a terror during the war.
From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson
He has thanked the peculators for not despairing of their commonwealth.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
