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
The fate of Bigot was a warning to public peculators and oppressors.
From The Golden Dog by William Kirby
He knew, however, that if he quarrelled with the Parliament for treating either peculators or Papists with severity, he should have little support in England.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
Behind them, the bandits of the street, those "who gutted houses during the Revolution," peculators or Septembriseurs out of employment, in short, the relics of the terrorist gang or of the revolutionary army.
From The French Revolution - Volume 3 by John Durand
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
