Speculate vs Profiteer - What's the difference?
speculate | profiteer |
To think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to consider, to deliberate or cogitate.
* Hawthorne
To make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to surmise or conjecture.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (intransitive, business, finance) To make a risky trade in the hope of making a profit; to venture or gamble.
As verbs the difference between speculate and profiteer
is that speculate is to think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to consider, to deliberate or cogitate while profiteer is to make an unreasonable profit not justified by cost or risk.As a noun profiteer is
(pejorative) one who makes an unreasonable profit not justified by cost or risk.speculate
English
Verb
(speculat)- It is remarkable that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society.
Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}