speculant
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A speculator; one who makes speculative (high-risk) investments.
noun
One who thinks about speculative subjects; one who dreams, extrapolates, or conjectures.
adj
Example Sentences
- "They moreover also belonged to those securities which speculants neglected at the beginning, which is perhaps sufficiently explained by the position of the rubber market and by the rubber price."
- "The thereby reduced inter currency interest rate in favour of the attacked currency decreases the financing costs of the speculants and, therefore, further increases the incentive to speculate."
- "How much further do we plan to bow to the gurus of Wall Street, to the speculants in Tokyo and London?"
- "A third example would be a speculant that enters into the market purely on a direction view."
- "In this way the danger threatening the population from unscrupulous speculants was averted and the prices were kept down."
- "There were many agents among the Russian speculants."