speculator
a person who is engaged in commercial or financial speculation.
a person who makes advance purchases of tickets, as to games or theatrical performances, that are likely to be in demand, for resale later at a higher price.
a person who is devoted to mental speculation.
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How to use speculator in a sentence
Then speculators ran off to play with the next shiny object, and it went back to pennies.
Blount was also a land speculator and borrowed money to purchase huge swaths of land in Tennessee and the surrounding areas.
The Founding Father who was impeached after leaving the Senate in shame | Gillian Brockell | January 13, 2021 | Washington PostWe are speculators here, peering into someone else’s marriage.
What Kurt Vonnegut’s rapturous love letters reveal about him as a writer — and husband | Susan Keselenko Coll | December 3, 2020 | Washington PostWall Street speculators are flocking to electric vehicle startups, assigning gigantic valuations to companies that have yet to produce any vehicles, much less any revenue or profits.
These speculators can hold the token for up to a year in hopes of getting a better price.
Sorokko has no interest in trophies as such, and she is no speculator.
Tatiana Sorokko Is the Queen of Vintage Couture | Anthony Haden-Guest | October 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFor bringing the home within the reach of a black purchaser, however, the speculator extracted a considerable price.
The new "new" thing was Chinese contemporary art and the speculator mentality that fueled the Western market.
Would it have been restored, had the luckless speculator himself remained?
He had never thought of him as a speculator in building land.
Tristram of Blent | Anthony HopeIt would be better we think to get him a bright vest and a derby hat and let him pretend to be a sidewalk speculator.
Seeing Things at Night | Heywood BrounCouture is a very minor character, a financial speculator, who only hung on the fringe of the viveurs.
Vie de Bohme | Orlo WilliamsHe was shrewd in money matters, and a successful speculator for many years.
The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume I (of 2) | Benjamin Ellis Martin
British Dictionary definitions for speculator
/ (ˈspɛkjʊˌleɪtə) /
a person who speculates
NZ rugby an undirected kick of the ball
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