Definitions for speculation
  • Speculate (v. i.) - To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to speculate on questions in religion; to speculate on political events.
  • Speculate (v. i.) - To view subjects from certain premises given or assumed, and infer conclusions respecting them a priori.
  • Speculate (v. i.) - To purchase with the expectation of a contingent advance in value, and a consequent sale at a profit; -- often, in a somewhat depreciative sense, of unsound or hazardous transactions; as, to speculate in coffee, in sugar, or in bank stock.
  • Speculate (v. t.) - To consider attentively; as, to speculate the nature of a thing.
  • Speculated (imp. & p. p.) - of Speculate
  • Speculates - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Speculating (p. pr. & vb. n.) - of Speculate
  • Speculation (n.) - The act of speculating.
  • Speculation (n.) - Examination by the eye; view.
  • Speculation (n.) - Mental view of anything in its various aspects and relations; contemplation; intellectual examination.
  • Speculation (n.) - The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.
  • Speculation (n.) - The act or practice of buying land, goods, shares, etc., in expectation of selling at a higher price, or of selling with the expectation of repurchasing at a lower price; a trading on anticipated fluctuations in price, as distinguished from trading in which the profit expected is the difference between the retail and wholesale prices, or the difference of price in different markets.
  • Speculation (n.) - Any business venture in involving unusual risks, with a chance for large profits.
  • Speculation (n.) - A conclusion to which the mind comes by speculating; mere theory; view; notion; conjecture.
  • Speculation (n.) - Power of sight.
  • Speculation (n.) - A game at cards in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes.
  • Speculations - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Speculative (a.) - Given to speculation; contemplative.
  • Speculative (a.) - Involving, or formed by, speculation; ideal; theoretical; not established by demonstration.
  • Speculative (a.) - Of or pertaining to vision; also, prying; inquisitive; curious.
  • Speculative (a.) - Of or pertaining to speculation in land, goods, shares, etc.; as, a speculative dealer or enterprise.
  • Speculatively - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Speculativeness - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Speculator (n.) - One who speculates. Specifically: (a) An observer; a contemplator; hence, a spy; a watcher.
  • Speculator (n.) - One who forms theories; a theorist.
  • Speculator (n.) - One who engages in speculation; one who buys and sells goods, land, etc., with the expectation of deriving profit from fluctuations in price.
  • Speculators - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Speculator's - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
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