speculate
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[edit] Etymology
From Latin speculātus, past participle of speculor (“look out”), from specula (“watchtower”), from specio (“look at”)
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speculate (third-person singular simple present speculates, present participle speculating, simple past and past participle speculated)
- (intransitive) to think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to deliberate or cogitate
- (intransitive) to make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to surmise or conjecture
- (intransitive, business, finance) to make a risky trade in the hope of making a profit; to venture or gamble
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to meditate
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to make a risky trade
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[edit] External links
- speculate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- speculate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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