Definition of Speculation

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Speculation

The act of speculating.

Examination by the eye; view.

Mental view of anything in its various aspects and relations; contemplation; intellectual examination.

The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.

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.

Any business venture in involving unusual risks, with a chance for large profits.

A conclusion to which the mind comes by speculating; mere theory; view; notion; conjecture.

Power of sight.

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 Quotations

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.
Henry Ford

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.
Jackie Chan

The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.
Roger Bacon

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
Charles Baudelaire

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
Samuel Butler

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
Honore De Balzac

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There's been a lot of speculation about every single girl I'm with and it actually does quite irritate me after a while, more so because it's a complete pain for the girls.
Prince William

When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.
Samuel Alexander

Speculation Translations

speculation in Swedish is spekulation

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