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land speculator

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meanings of landand speculator


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land
noun
uk /lænd/ us /lænd/
the surface of the earth that is not covered ...
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speculator
noun[C]
uk /ˈspek.jə.leɪ.tər/ us /ˈspek.jə.leɪ.t̬ɚ/
a person who buys goods, property, money, etc. in the hope of selling them at ...
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Examples of land speculator


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One can be a landspeculator—some of them make the train robbers look like juvenile delinquents.
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He is thinking of the pure landspeculator, the case of a company formed for the purpose of buying and selling land.
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It is not the council tenant who is making his fortune but the house and landspeculator.
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He is not a landspeculator or shark.
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He was not a landspeculator.
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Does not the landspeculator have an interest in inflation?
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But the landspeculator can gamble, and if he loses in his gamble he is to be compensated.
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A landspeculator bought the whole thing, lock, stock and barrel.
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Will he also ensure that the developer, if such should apply, is a bone fide developer and not a landspeculator?
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We are not here to defend the landspeculator.
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I imagine he sold it to a landspeculator.
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It was because they deliberately put the land at the mercy of the landspeculator that we have been faced with a land crisis today.
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I believe that the intention is to get at the landspeculator, but it is ridiculous to associate the landspeculator with the owner-occupier.
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To the landspeculator and the improvement grant operator we must now add the break-up market operator.
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The situation is different for the big industrialist and landspeculator.
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The people's industry creates them, and the landspeculator pockets them.
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We have all of us known cases of that kind and the particular type of landspeculator that it produces.
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In other words, the landspeculator is set free to speculate.
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How much does a landspeculator contribute to the economic life of this country?
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Where agricultural land is sold, it is sold either direct to the agricultural tenant or to a landspeculator.
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