Speculation
51speculation — noun a) The process of thinking or meditating on a subject b) A judgment or conclusion reached by speculating …
52speculation — Synonyms and related words: abstraction, actuarial prediction, advisement, agiotage, analysis, apocalypse, arbitrage, betting, blind guess, bold conjecture, brainwork, brooding, buying in, calculated risk, cardsharping, casting lots, cerebration …
53speculation — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Thought] Syn. meditation, consideration, thinking; see thought 1 . 2. [Speculative business] Syn. trading in futures, speculative enterprise, financial risk, a flier in stocks*, risky deal*; see also gambling . Ant. risk*,… …
54SPECULATION — (спекуляция) принятие больших рисков, особенно относительно попытки предсказывать будущее; азартная игра, в надежде получения быстрой, большой прибыли; …
55speculation — spec·u·la·tion || ‚spekjÉ™ leɪʃn / jÊŠ l n. contemplation, deliberation; conjecture, hypothesis; act of engaging in risky business transactions; buying and selling of commodities in order to profit from market fluctuations …
56speculation — n. 1. Contemplation, intellectual examination, mental view. 2. Theory, scheme, hypothesis, supposition, conjecture, view, a priori reasoning, reflection …
57speculation — n 1. thinking, thought, reflection, meditation, contemplation; musing, pondering, brooding, mulling over, dwelling on; cogitating, cogitation, excogitating, excogitation; rumination, ruminating, chewing over, chewing one s cud; putting on one s… …
58speculation — spec·u·la·tion …
59speculation — [ˌspekjʊˈleɪʃ(ə)n] noun [C/U] guesses about why something has happened or what might happen …
60speculation — spec•u•la•tion [[t]ˌspɛk yəˈleɪ ʃən[/t]] n. 1) the contemplation or consideration of some subject 2) a single instance or process of consideration 3) a conclusion or opinion reached by such contemplation 4) conjectural consideration of a matter;… …
