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speculator

/spek-yuh-ley-ter/US // ˈspɛk yəˌleɪ tər //UK // (ˈspɛkjʊˌleɪtə) //

投机者,投机商,炒家,投机商人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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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Examples

  • 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.

  • We are speculators here, peering into someone else’s marriage.

  • Wall 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.

  • For 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.

  • It would be better we think to get him a bright vest and a derby hat and let him pretend to be a sidewalk speculator.

  • Couture is a very minor character, a financial speculator, who only hung on the fringe of the viveurs.

  • He was shrewd in money matters, and a successful speculator for many years.