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SPECULATION

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speculation substantiv

1. speculaţie (teoretică); teorie;

we must have done with visionary speculation trebuie să punem capăt speculaţiilor goale.

2. meditaţie, refiexi(un)e, chibzuire, cugetare, gândire (adâncă); ipoteze, supoziţii, presupuneri;

to be the object ot much speculation a da naştere la multe presupuneri.

3. (com.) speculaţie, agiotaj; loc la bursă, operaţiuni de bursă.

4. operaţiune hazardată / risca(n)tă / îndrăzneaţă;

on speculation v. on spec (v. spec).

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

These were few enough, to be sure; but as we always fell back upon Blood, she had as wide a field for abstract speculation as her nephew himself.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

It was also a very early speculation with Emma.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

I may say with confidence that he never had occasion to regret his speculation.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sir Thomas, after a moment's thought, recommended speculation.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

It was by his advice that my father risked most of his property in the speculation that ruined him.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

For Catherine, however, the peculiar object of the general's curiosity, and his own speculations, he had yet something more in reserve, and the ten or fifteen thousand pounds which her father could give her would be a pretty addition to Mr. Allen's estate.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

“Very well,” was her ladyship's contented answer; “then speculation, if you please, Mrs. Grant. I know nothing about it, but Fanny must teach me.”

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

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