Speculator Definition

Speculator Sentence Examples

• Lewis has worked in the Los Angeles area as a real estate speculator for ten years.

• Never again should they be left at the mercy of the city financier or speculator.

• The e-mail name may look like some crafty gold speculator, but these anonymous offers with no money changing hands sound fictional to me.

• McGillivray was polished in manners, of cultivated intellect, was a shrewd merchant, and a successful speculator; but he had many savage traits, being noted for his treachery, craftiness and love of barbaric display.

• In France, Madame de Pompadour was their enemy because they had refused her absolution while she remained the king's mistress; but the immediate cause of their ruin was the bankruptcy of Father Lavalette, the Jesuit superior in Martinique, a daring speculator, who failed, after trading for some years, for 2,400,000 francs and brought ruin upon some French commercial houses of note.