speculator

[ spek-yuh-ley-ter ]

/ ˈspɛk yəˌleɪ tər /

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noun

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.

Words nearby speculator

speculate, speculation, speculative, speculative fiction, speculative philosophy, speculator, speculum, speculum forceps, speculum metal, sped, spee

Origin of speculator

1545–55; < Latin speculātor explorer, equivalent to speculā(rī) to watch over, explore, reconnoiter (see speculate) + -tor -tor

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Examples from the Web for speculator

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|DAILY BEAST
The new "new" thing was Chinese contemporary art and the speculator mentality that fueled the Western market.
How China Conquered the Art World|Arne Glimcher|March 11, 2009|DAILY BEAST
Tens of thousands of the poor might curse his name, but the financier and the speculator execrated him no more.
The Woman in Black|Edmund Clerihew Bentley
The speculator easily recalls the quotations of his favorite stocks.
Your Mind and How to Use It|William Walker Atkinson

The speculator has supplanted him without perceptibly improving the morality of the world.
By-Ways of War|James Jeffrey Roche
The bookseller who risked the publication was a speculator, not remarkable for discernment.
Library Notes|A. P. Russell
We now approach one of the grandest schemes for defrauding a people ever conceived in the breast of the speculator.
Monopolies and the People|D. C. Cloud

British Dictionary definitions for speculator

speculator

/ (ˈspɛkjʊˌleɪtə) /

noun

a person who speculates

NZ rugby an undirected kick of the ball

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speculator

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