speculate
21speculate — / spekjυleɪt/ verb to take a risk in business which you hope will bring you profits ♦ to speculate on the Stock Exchange to buy shares which you hope will rise in value …
22speculate — see if you don’t speculate, you can’t accumulate …
23speculate with — index endanger Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
24speculate — verb ( lated; lating) Etymology: Latin speculatus, past participle of speculari to spy out, examine, from specula lookout post, from specere to look, look at more at spy Date: 1599 intransitive verb 1. a. to meditate on or ponder a subject ;… …
25speculate — /spek yeuh layt /, v.i., speculated, speculating. 1. to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often fol. by on, upon, or a clause). 2. to indulge in conjectural thought. 3. to engage in any business transaction involving considerable risk or …
26speculate — verb a) to think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to deliberate or cogitate b) to make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to …
27speculate — Synonyms and related words: be abstracted, be caught short, be short, belong, brood, bucket, bucketshop, buy in, buy into, call, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, cast lots, cerebrate, chew over, chew the cud, cogitate, consider, contemplate,… …
28speculate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. ponder, contemplate, meditate, theorize, conjecture, surmise; gamble, play the market. See thought, chance, barter. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To think] Syn. contemplate, meditate, muse, reflect,… …
29speculate — spec·u·late || spekjÉ™leɪt / jÊŠl v. consider, reflect, ponder, wonder; theorize, hypothesize; engage in risky business transactions; buy and sell commodities to profit from market fluctuations …
30speculate v — The optician probably doesn t have my glasses ready yet, Tom speculated …
