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10 lettersPronunciation /ˈspɛkjʊˌleɪtə/Part of speech nounSorted aceloprstuStarts with SEnds with R0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains

Word origin

From Latin speculātor (“spy, explorer, investigator”), from speculor (“to watch, to observe”) + -tor (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from specula (“watchtower”), from speciō (“to watch, to observe”), q.v. In some senses, an agent noun formed within English from speculate. Doublet of spectator.

Used in a sentence

  • a bold and paradoxical speculator
  • […] 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.
  • But it would be very unjust to think of all the Railway Members as speculators and simply out to feather their own nests, not that it is fair to think of George Hudson in this light alone.

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