Definition of speculation

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Speculation (n.) Any business venture in involving unusual risks, with a chance for large profits..

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Dilettant :: Dilettant (a.) Of or pertaining to dilettanteism; amateur; as, dilettant speculation..
Speculation :: Speculation (n.) Examination by the eye; view.
Inutility :: Inutility (n.) Uselessness; the quality of being unprofitable; unprofitableness; as, the inutility of vain speculations and visionary projects..
Theoretics :: Theoretics (n.) The speculative part of a science; speculation.
Venture :: Venture (n.) An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation.
Reimburse :: Reimburse (v. t.) To make restoration or payment of an equivalent to (a person); to pay back to; to indemnify; -- often reflexive; as, to reimburse one's self by successful speculation..
Speculation :: Speculation (n.) The act or practice of buying land, goods, shares, etc., in expectation of selling at a higher price, or of selling with the expectation of repurchasing at a lower price; a trading on anticipated fluctuations in price, as distinguished from trading in which the profit expected is the difference between the retail and wholesale prices, or the difference of price in different markets..
Speculation :: Speculation (n.) Power of sight.
Speculation :: Speculation (n.) The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.
Speculation :: Speculation (n.) Any business venture in involving unusual risks, with a chance for large profits..
Speculation :: Speculation (n.) Mental view of anything in its various aspects and relations; contemplation; intellectual examination.
Freethinking :: Freethinking (a.) Exhibiting undue boldness of speculation; skeptical.
Rush :: Rush (v. i.) To enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush business or speculation..
Finedrawn :: Finedrawn (a.) Drawn out with too much subtilty; overnice; as, finedrawn speculations..
Bubble :: Bubble (n.) Anything that wants firmness or solidity; that which is more specious than real; a false show; a cheat or fraud; a delusive scheme; an empty project; a dishonest speculation; as, the South Sea bubble..
Speculative :: Speculative (a.) Of or pertaining to speculation in land, goods, shares, etc.; as, a speculative dealer or enterprise..
Plunge :: Plunge (n.) Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
Transcendent :: Transcendent (a.) Transcending, or reaching beyond, the limits of human knowledge; -- applied to affirmations and speculations concerning what lies beyond the reach of the human intellect..
Pan :: Pan (v. i.) To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly..
Freethinking :: Freethinking (n.) Undue boldness of speculation; unbelief.
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