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  Speculation \Spec`u*la"tion\, n. [L. speculatio a spying out,
     observation: cf. F. sp['e]culation.]
     1. The act of speculating. Specifically: 
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        (a) Examination by the eye; view. [Obs.]
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        (b) Mental view of anything in its various aspects and
            relations; contemplation; intellectual examination.
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                  Thenceforth to speculations high or deep
                  I turned my thoughts.             --Milton.
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        (c) (Philos.) The act or process of reasoning a priori
            from premises given or assumed.
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        (d) (Com.) 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.
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                  Sudden fortunes, indeed, are sometimes made in
                  such places, by what is called the trade of
                  speculation.                      --A. Smith.
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                  Speculation, while confined within moderate
                  limits, is the agent for equalizing supply and
                  demand, and rendering the fluctuations of price
                  less sudden and abrupt than they would otherwise
                  be.                               --F. A.
                                                    Walker.
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        (e) Any business venture in involving unusual risks, with
            a chance for large profits.
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     2. A conclusion to which the mind comes by speculating; mere
        theory; view; notion; conjecture.
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              From him Socrates derived the principles of
              morality, and most part of his natural speculations.
                                                    --Sir W.
                                                    Temple.
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              To his speculations on these subjects he gave the
              lofty name of the ``Oracles of Reason.'' --Macaulay.
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     3. Power of sight. [Obs.]
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              Thou hast no speculation in those eyes. --Shak.
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     4. A game at cards in which the players buy from one another
        trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the
        highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool
        of stakes.
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  Speculation \Spec`u*la"tion\, n. [L. speculatio a spying out,
     observation: cf. F. sp['e]culation.]
     1. The act of speculating. Specifically:
        (a) Examination by the eye; view. [Obs.]
        (b) Mental view of anything in its various aspects and
            relations; contemplation; intellectual examination.
  
                  Thenceforth to speculations high or deep I
                  turned my thoughts.               --Milton.
        (c) (Philos.) The act or process of reasoning a priori
            from premises given or assumed.
        (d) (Com.) 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
       n 1: a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
            [syn: guess, conjecture, supposition, surmise, surmisal,
             hypothesis]
       2: a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or
          conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence);
          "speculations about the outcome of the election"; "he
          dismissed it as mere conjecture" [syn: conjecture]
       3: an investment that is very risky but could yield great
          profits; "he knew the stock was a speculation when he
          bought it" [syn: venture]
       4: continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject
          or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature; "the
          habit of meditation is the basis for all real knowledge"
          [syn: meditation]

  speculation
     n.
     1 (lb en obsolete) The faculty of sight.
     2 (lb en obsolete) An act of looking at something; examination,
  observation.

  speculation
     n.
     1 (lb en obsolete) The faculty of sight.
     2 (lb en obsolete) An act of looking at something; examination,
  observation.

  speculation
     n.
     1 (lb en obsolete) The faculty of sight.
     2 (lb en obsolete) An act of looking at something; examination,
  observation.

  speculation
     n.
     1 (lb en obsolete) The faculty of sight.
     2 (lb en obsolete) An act of looking at something; examination,
  observation.

  speculation
     Englanti n.
     1 pohdinta, mietiskely, spekulaatio
     2 olettamus, johtopäätös, arvailu
     3 keinottelu

  speculation
     Engelska n.
     spekulation

  Speculation /spˌɛkjʊlˈeɪʃən/
  التخمين

  speculation //ˌspɛk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən// 
  1. спекулация 2.
  act or practice of investing in expectation of making a profit from future price changes
   3.
  business, finance: investment involving higher-than-normal risk
  2. предположе́ние
  judgment or conclusion reached by speculating
  3. размишле́ние
  process of thinking or meditation

  speculation /spˌɛkjʊlˈeɪʃən/
  spekulace

  speculation /spˌɛkjʊlˈeɪʃən/
  Mutmaßung , Spekulation 
     Synonym: spec
  
   see: speculations, specs, make speculations
  

  speculation /spˌɛkjʊlˈeɪʃən/
  Rätselraten 

  speculation /spˌɛkjʊlˈeɪʃən/
  Spekulieren , Spekulation  [econ.]
           Note: spekulative Geschäftstätigkeit
        "speculation in shares / stocks"  - Aktienspekulation, Spekulation mit Aktien
        "speculation in land"  - Grundstücksspekulation
        "speculation in property"  - Grundstücksspekulation
        "real-estate speculation"  - Grundstücksspekulation
        "speculation for a rise"  - Haussespekulation (Börse)
        "speculation in securities"  - Wertpapierspekulation, Spekulation mit Wertpapieren
        "engage in risky speculations"  - sich auf gewagte Spekulationen einlassen
        "The most recent wave of speculation has declined."  - Die jüngste Spekulationswelle ist wieder abgeebbt.
   see: share speculation, stock speculation, bad speculation, wrong speculation, land speculation, land jobbing, property speculation, bull speculation, security speculation, securities speculation
  
           Note: speculative business activities

  speculation /spˌɛkjʊlˈeɪʃən/
  
  εικασία, κερδοσκοπία

  speculation //ˌspɛk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən// 
  1. keinottelu, spekulaatio, spekulatiivinen investointi, spekulointi
  act or practice of investing in expectation of making a profit from future price changes
  2. riskisijoitus, spekulaatio, spekulatiivinen investointi
  business, finance: investment involving higher-than-normal risk
  3. tarkastelu
  examination by the eye
  4. johtopäätös
  judgment or conclusion reached by speculating
  5. päättely
  philosophy: act or process of reasoning from premises given or assumed
  6. näkö
  power of sight
  7. järkeily, mietiskely, pohdinta, päättely, spekulaatio
  process of thinking or meditation

  speculation /spˌɛkjʊlˈeɪʃən/
  mozganje, nesiguran posao, razmatranje, razmišljanje, špekulacija

  speculation /spˌɛkjʊlˈeɪʃən/
  1. töprengés
  2. feltevés
  3. elmélkedés
  4. spekuláció
  5. elmélet

  speculation //ˌspɛk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən// 
  spekulasi 2.
  act or practice of investing in expectation of making a profit from future price changes
   3.
  business, finance: investment involving higher-than-normal risk
   4.
  judgment or conclusion reached by speculating

  speculation //ˌspɛk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən// 
  投機
  business, finance: investment involving higher-than-normal risk

  speculation /spekjuleiʃən/
  bespiegeling, speculatie

  speculation /spˌɛkjʊlˈeɪʃən/ 
  especulação

  speculation //ˌspɛk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən// 
  spekulation 2.
  business, finance: investment involving higher-than-normal risk
   3.
  judgment or conclusion reached by speculating
   4.
  process of thinking or meditation

  speculation /spˌɛkjʊlˈeɪʃən/
  1. zihnen tartıp tahlil etme, fikren mütalaa, üzerinde düşünme
  2. kurgu
  3. spekülasyon
  4. oyuncuların birbirinden koz satın aldıklan bir tür iskambil oyunu.

  
/ˌspɛkjəˈɫeɪʃən/

  SPECULATION, contracts. The hope or desire of making a profit by the 
  purchase and resale of a thing. Pard. Dr. Com. n. 12. The profit so made; 
  as, be made a good speculation. 
  
  

  126 Moby Thesaurus words for "speculation":
     abstraction, actuarial prediction, advisement, agiotage, analysis,
     apocalypse, arbitrage, betting, blind guess, bold conjecture,
     brainwork, brooding, buying in, calculated risk, cardsharping,
     casting lots, cerebration, chance, cogitation, conjecture,
     consideration, contemplation, counsel, deliberation, doctrinairism,
     doctrinality, doctrinarity, equity capital, evaluation,
     excogitation, explanation, flier, flutter, foreboding, forecast,
     forecasting, foreshowing, foresight, foretelling, fortune, gamble,
     gambling, gaming, guess, guesswork, hazard, hazarding, hunch,
     hypothesis, improbability, investment, liquidation, luck,
     lucubration, meditation, mere theory, musing, omen, opinion,
     perhaps, play, playing, plunge, pondering, postulation, prediction,
     prefiguration, prefigurement, prefiguring, presage, presaging,
     presentiment, preshowing, presignifying, prime investment,
     probability, profit taking, prognosis, prognostication, promise,
     prophecy, prophesying, prospectus, reflection, review, revolving,
     risk, risking, rough guess, round trade, rumination, scalping,
     shot, soothsay, sortition, sporting, spot sale, stab, staking,
     statistical prediction, stockjobbery, stockjobbing, study,
     studying, suppose, supposition, surmise, theoretic,
     theoretical basis, theoretics, theoria, theoric, theorization,
     theory, thinking, turn, uncertainty, unverified supposition,
     vaticination, venture, venture capital, wager, wagering, weighing,
     wild guess, wondering
  
  

  n. 沉思,推测,投机;

     n. 沉思,推测,投机