| 词汇 | example_english_speculative-venture |
| 释义 | speculative venturecollocation in Englishmeanings of speculativeand ventureThese words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or, see other collocations with venture. speculative adjective uk /ˈspek.jə.lə.tɪv/ us /ˈspek.jə.lə.t̬ɪv/ based on a guess and not ... See more at speculative venture noun[C] uk /ˈven.tʃər/ us /ˈven.tʃɚ/ a new activity, usually in business, that involves risk ... See more at venture Examples of speculative ventureThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Such a book is unlikely to have been made as a speculativeventure: on the contrary, it was probably the product of a specific commission. It is not really a speculativeventure for them, but an investment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is often said that litigation is a speculativeventure. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 How much has this speculativeventure cost us to date and how much is it likely to cost us in the next 18 months? From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English It is not a speculativeventure. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It was a purely speculativeventure. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The first is that, when you have a "dry" area, it provides a very speculativeventure for the trade. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What private investor would put money into such a speculativeventure in which the costs are escalating so rapidly? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Cannot we speed up the building of atomic power stations instead of investing our capital in what (judging by the 1950 report) is a highly speculativeventure? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nor should a speculativeventure where for example someone has spent time producing a screenplay without any commission. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One of the real difficulties is that many builders have acquired land well in advance of their requirements, as a speculativeventure, hoping to obtain planning permission in the future. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is a speculativeventure. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Yet speculative ventures are suspect to many people. Uncertainty raises liquidity preference and forces agents to invest, if at all, in short-horizon activities such as trade and speculative ventures (black market operations, smuggling or petty trade). Another feature setting speculative ventures apart from 'normal' commercial ventures is the lure of large profits. Here we are contemplating their going into speculative ventures in competition with the private sector. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are not there to enter into loans on office property or other speculative ventures. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The powers are not designed to enable the mayor to embark on speculative ventures. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The reason it is so restricted is because it is not right to use public money for speculative ventures. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are not prepared to facilitate asset-stripping, or to inject large sums of public money into flimsy or speculative ventures. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Want to learn more? Go to the definition of speculative Go to the definition of venture See other collocations with venture |
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