Definitions for Speculator

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Speculator spec·u·la·tor

Spelling: [spek-yuh-ley-ter]

IPA: /ˈspɛk yəˌleɪ tər/

Speculator is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 1651 anagrams from letters in Speculator (aceloprstu).

Definitions for Speculator

noun

1. a person who is engaged in commercial or financial speculation.
2. 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.
3. a person who is devoted to mental speculation.

Origin of Speculator

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

Examples for Speculator

Wherever he could get his hands on a speculator or extortioner, he shook him up.

The new "new" thing was Chinese contemporary art and the speculator mentality that fueled the Western market.

I no longer doubted the statement of Thompson and the speculator Smith.

A speculator of this class happened to find that Matthew viii.

Sorokko has no interest in trophies as such, and she is no speculator.

Does not the vulgar estimate confound the philanthropist with the speculator?

He ceased farming and became a speculator with dreams of millions in his brain.

For bringing the home within the reach of a black purchaser, however, the speculator extracted a considerable price.

He had never thought of him as a speculator in building land.

The speculator had brought her, but had postponed her removal till she should recover.