speculator as a noun: - 1
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speculator
noun
1 speculator
Someone who makes conjectures without knowing the facts.
Roget 799a:
stock market,
stock exchange,
securities exchange;
bourse,
board;
the big board,
the New York Stock Exchange;
the market,
the open market;
over-the-counter market;
privately traded issues.
commodities exchange,
futures exchange,
futures market.
the pit,
the floor.
ticker,
stock ticker,
quotation;
stock index,
market index,
the Dow Jones Index,
the Dow Industrials,
the transportation index,
utilities,
the utilities index;
the New York Stock Exchange index,
the Nikkei index [Jap.Tr.];
the Financial Times index,
the FTI [Brit.],
the over-the-counter index,
NASDAQ index.
[person or firm trading securities]
broker,
stockbroker,
jobber,
stock dealer,
odd-lot dealer;
specialist.
[person who buys or sells stocks]
investor,
speculator,
operator;
bull,
buyer;
bear,
short seller;
scalper,
arbitrager†,
arbitrageur†;
stockholder,
share-holder,
stockholder of record;
bond holder,
coupon-clipper [Sarc.].
investment;
speculation.
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2 speculator
Someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains.
synonym: plunger.
Polish: spekulant
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