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NOUN
  1. someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use

How To Use peculator In A Sentence

  • On the same day the pound fell four pfennigs to DM2. 8324, as speculators calculated that Gordon Brown was not going to repeat the mistake which John Major made as Chancellor in 1990, by fixing the pound at too high a level against the mark.
  • Developers and speculators were left holding thousands of new unsold condos creating the greatest buyer's market ever experienced in this part of the world, i.e. the supply (glut) of new condos far outnumbers the demand. Herd Mentality As it Applies to Real Estate in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
  • His comments came amid claims hedge fund speculators are driving up prices. The Sun
  • His nonchalance contrasted with insatiable appetite from hedge funds and speculators. Times, Sunday Times
  • To be honest nothing has been proven about Mr. Johnson's mortage at Countrywide. .it's still speculatory. Obama's VP vetter steps aside
  • They want to stop rebating the $16 billion annually from the stock transfer tax to Wall Street speculators; restore the progressive state income tax to levels from the 1970s; and raise $10 billion with a 50% bankers bonus tax. Alan Singer: New York Needs 50,000 Green Votes
  • The lifetime of an speculator is measured in months, not years.
  • CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton said speculators may have helped oil prices soar above $147 a barrel last summer.
  • On a personal level, I believe in reincarnation and the basic spiritualities common to all religions, but on a social level I keep those purely speculatory beliefs out of equation because they do no good. Ryan VS Darin Round 1
  • Thanks so much for the links to the WSJ story pumping up the speculatory frenzy over the conference call at the center of Blagopaylooza (my "Name the Scandal" entry, btw) and the Politico "story" about that upright paragon of moral rectitude David Vitter's plan to call Bill to testify at Hillary's confirmation hearing. Where Are You, Angry Left?
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