An inexperienced stock speculator could easily let his business go to pot and lose his entire fortune.
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Speculator
Synonyms for "speculator" (57 found)
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9 entriesTranslations
26 translations across 19 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- مُضَارِب noun (one who speculates; as in investing)
Bulgarian
1 entries- спекулант noun (one who speculates; as in investing)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 投機者 /投机者 noun (one who speculates; as in investing)
Czech
1 entries- spekulant noun (one who speculates; as in investing)
Danish
1 entries- spekulant noun (one who speculates; as in investing)
Dutch
1 entries- speculant noun (one who speculates; as in investing)
Finnish
1 entries- keinottelija noun (one who speculates; as in investing)
French
3 entries- agioteur noun (one who speculates; as in investing)
- boukiman (Senegal) noun (one who speculates; as in investing)
- spéculateur noun (one who speculates; as in investing)
German
2 entries- Spekulant noun (one who speculates; as in investing)
- Spekulantin noun (one who speculates; as in investing)
Indonesian
2 entries- spekulan noun (one who speculates; as in investing)
- spekulator noun (one who speculates; as in investing)
Irish
1 entries- amhantraí noun (one who speculates; as in investing)
Japanese
1 entries- 投機家 noun (one who speculates; as in investing)
Korean
1 entries- 투기꾼 noun (one who speculates; as in investing)
Polish
1 entries- spekulant noun (one who speculates; as in investing)
Portuguese
1 entries- especulador noun (one who speculates; as in investing)
Russian
2 entries- спекуля́нт noun (one who speculates; as in investing)
- спекуля́нтка noun (one who speculates; as in investing)
Spanish
1 entries- especulador noun (one who speculates; as in investing)
Swedish
1 entries- spekulant noun (one who speculates; as in investing)
Ukrainian
3 entries- спекуля́нт noun (one who speculates; as in investing)
- спекуля́нтка noun (one who speculates; as in investing)
- ґешефтя́р noun (one who speculates; as in investing)
Sample sentences
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If someone, because of his love of a forest, walks there half of every day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, chopping down that forest and making the earth bald before its time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
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a bold and paradoxical speculator
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[…] in things of Fact, the People are as much to be believed, as the most subtle Philosophers and Speculators, since here sense is the Judge.
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