Usually means: Forming theories without firm evidence.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. speculation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. speculation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. speculation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. speculation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. speculation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Speculation, speculation: Wordnik
  7. speculation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. speculation: Wiktionary
  9. speculation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. speculation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. speculation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. speculation: Dictionary.com
  13. speculation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. speculation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Speculation (card game), Speculation (disambiguation), Speculation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Speculation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. speculation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. speculation: Rhymezone
  19. Speculation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. speculation: Free Dictionary
  21. speculation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. speculation: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Speculation: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  5. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Speculation: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  7. Speculation: Futures and Options Market Terminology
  8. speculation: Finance-Glossary.com
  9. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  10. Speculation: Investopedia
  11. speculation: Legal dictionary
  12. speculation: Financial dictionary
  13. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  14. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. speculation: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. speculation: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Speculation: Catholic Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. speculation: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Speculation: Card Games

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (obsolete) The faculty of sight.
noun:  (obsolete) An act of looking at something; examination, observation.
noun:  The process or act of thinking or meditating on a subject.
noun:  (philosophy) The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.
noun:  A conclusion to which the mind comes by speculating; mere theory; notion; conjecture.
noun:  (business, finance) An investment involving higher-than-normal risk in order to obtain a higher-than-normal return.
noun:  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.
noun:  A card game 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.
noun:  (programming) The process of anticipating which branch of code will be chosen and executing it in advance.

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