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speculate
Found in thesaurus: expect, anticipate, reason, cerebrate, think, cogitate, put, invest, place, commit
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speculate
v.
consider, reflect, ponder, wonder; theorize, hypothesize; engage in risky business transactions; buy and sell commodities to profit from market fluctuations
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Speculation
Speculation is the practice of engaging in risky financial transactions in an attempt to profit from fluctuations in the market value of a tradable good such as a financial instrument, rather than attempting to profit from the underlying financial attributes embodied in the instrument such as capital gains, interest, or dividends. Many speculators pay little attention to the fundamental value of a security and instead focus purely on price movements. Speculation can in principle involve any tradable good or financial instrument. Speculators are particularly common in the markets for stocks, bonds, commodity futures, currencies, fine art, collectibles, real estate, and derivatives.
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speculate
Verb
1. to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"
(synonym) theorize, theorise, conjecture, hypothesize, hypothesise, hypothecate, suppose
(hypernym) expect, anticipate
(hyponym) reconstruct, construct, retrace
(derivation) speculation, conjecture
2. talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion; "We were speculating whether the President had to resign after the scandal"
(hypernym) reason
(hyponym) guess, venture, pretend, hazard
(derivation) guess, conjecture, supposition, surmise, surmisal, speculation, hypothesis
3. reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate"
(synonym) chew over, think over, meditate, ponder, excogitate, contemplate, muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate
(hypernym) think, cogitate, cerebrate
(hyponym) premeditate
(derivation) meditation, speculation
4. invest at a risk; "I bought this house not because I want to live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am speculating"
(synonym) job
(hypernym) invest, put, commit, place
(hyponym) bull
(derivation) speculation, venture
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speculare
v.
profiteer, speculate
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speculate
v.
spekulovat; odhadovat
