Crossword-Solution: SPECULATOR
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Speculator | n. | One who speculates. Specifically: (a) An observer; a contemplator; hence, a spy; a watcher. |
| Speculator | n. | One who forms theories; a theorist. |
| Speculator | n. | One who engages in speculation; one who buys and sells goods, land, etc., with the expectation of deriving profit from fluctuations in price. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SPECULATOR | anagram | PARCELSOUT |
We have 19 clues for the answer “SPECULATOR”
| Clue | Answers |
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| someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains | 1 answer |
| someone who makes conjectures without knowing the facts | 1 answer |
| Plunger becomes embezzler | 1 answer |
| INVESTOR for high profits | 1 answer |
| BULL (stock exch.) | 1 answer |
| Adirondack ski center. | 1 answer |
| Wall Street phenomenon | 2 answers |
| Investor. | 12 answers |
| Trailblazer | 20 answers |
| Opportunist | 23 answers |
| GUESSER | 25 answers |
| PERSON dealing with money | 26 answers |
| gambler | 27 answers |
| entrepreneur | 29 answers |
| Gambling place | 40 answers |
| Pioneer | 55 answers |
| Adventurer | 62 answers |
| Bear | 75 answers |
| Bull | 81 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SPECULATOR (5)
Lydy Treffinger never has nothink to do with dealers.” MacMaster quietly repented his rash confidences, fearing that he might indirectly cause Lady Ellen annoyance from this merciless speculator, and he recalled with chagrin that Lichtenstein had extorted from him, little by little, pretty much the entire plan of his book, and especially the place in it which the _Marriage of Phaedra_ was to occupy.
The speculator having been rescued from Jim Willis’s clutches by the sheriff, the crowd good-naturedly helped us load our stones between pack-horses, and some of them followed us all the way home that they might see the grinding.
Astor encouraged these expeditions, but at first invested no money in them, as he considered them "extra hazardous." He was not a speculator.
The clamor of the battle alarmed those in the galleries of the Stock Exchange--Zabriskie's brokers selling, the brokers of the mysterious speculator buying, the speculating public through its brokers joining in on either side; men shrieking into each other's faces as they danced round and round the Great Lakes pillar.
III Just at that time the Japanese were casting far and wide for ships of European build, and he had no difficulty in finding a purchaser, a speculator who drove a hard bargain, but paid cash down for the Fair Maid, with a view to a profitable resale.
Quotes with SPECULATOR (3)
If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
It is true that the speculator may happen to go astray in his estimate of future prices. What is usually overlooked in considering this possibility is that under the given conditions it is far beyond the capacities of most people to foresee the future any more correctly. If this were not so, the opposing group of buyers or sellers would have got the upper hand in the market. The fact that the opinion accepted by the market has later proved to be false is lamented by nobody wi…
Nevertheless a certain class of dishonesty, dishonesty magnificent in its proportions, and climbing into high places, has become at the same time so rampant and so splendid that there seems to be reason for fearing that men and women will be taught to feel that dishonesty, if it can become splendid, will cease to be abominable. If dishonesty can live in a gorgeous palace with pictures on all its walls, and gems in all its cupboards, with marble and ivory in all its corners, a…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1961–1983).