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speculator 音标拼音: [sp'ɛkjəl ,etɚ] n. 投机者,投机商人,思索者 投机者,投机商人,思索者 speculator n 1: someone who makes conjectures without knowing the facts 2: someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains [ synonym: { speculator}, { plunger}] Speculator \ Spec" u* la` tor\ ( sp[ e^] k"[- u]* l[= a]` t[~ e] r), n. [ L., a spy, explorer, investigator: cf. F. sp[' e] culateur.] One who speculates. Specifically: ( a) An observer; a contemplator; hence, a spy; a watcher. [ Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster] ( b) One who forms theories; a theorist. [ 1913 Webster] A speculator who had dared to affirm that the human soul is by nature mortal. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] ( c) ( Com.) One who engages in speculation; one who buys and sells goods, land, etc., with the expectation of deriving profit from fluctuations in price. [ 1913 Webster] 54 Moby Thesaurus words for " speculator": adventurer, armchair authority, betting ring, bettor, big operator, boneshaker, cardshark, cardsharp, cardsharper, casuist, compulsive gambler, cosmologist, crap shooter, doctrinaire, doctrinarian, gambler, gamester, gunslinger, hazarder, hypothesist, hypothesizer, lame duck, margin purchaser, metaphysician, operator, petty gambler, philosophaster, philosophe, philosopher, philosophizer, piker, player, plunger, punter, scalper, sharp, sharper, sharpie, smart operator, sophist, sport, sporting man, sportsman, stag, theoretic, theoretician, theorist, theorizer, thinker, tinhorn, tipster, tout, venturer, wagerer
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