speculators

Noun

speculator (plural speculators)

1. One who speculates; an observer; a contemplator.
   • a bold and paradoxical speculatorc. 1683 (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in [Thomas Tenison], editor, Certain Miscellany Tracts, London: […] Charles Mearn, […], published 1683, →OCLC
2. One who forms theories; a theorist.
   • […] 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.1666, Joseph Glanvill, Philosophical Considerations concerning Witches and Witchcraft
3. One who speculates; as in investing, one who is willing to take volatile risks upon invested principal for the potential of substantial returns.
   • He had inherited his not inconsiderable fortune from an American cousin, who had in his time been a successful speculator—a speculator not exactly in crops, which are notoriously kittle-cattle, but in official crop reports.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries
4. Synonym of field goal.

   Synonyms:

   field goal

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