speculatively

speculative | American Dictionary

speculative
adjective
us/ˈspek·jə·lə·t̬ɪv/

speculativeadjective (DONE FOR PROFIT)

bought or done in order to make a profit in the future:
a speculative venture

speculativeadjective (BASED ON GUESS)

based on a guess and not on information:
Our forecast for next year is speculative.

speculative | Business English

speculative
adjective
uk /ˈspekjələtɪv/us
based on a guess and not on information:
The idea that a merger of this kind would ever take place is purely speculative.
highly/overly speculative
FINANCE
done in order to make a profit even though there is risk that you may lose money:
We should remember that a sign of the end of the first bubble was a large number of highly speculative transactions.
Company shares advanced 6p to 34p on speculative buying.
News of the sale led to considerable speculative activity on the exchange.
FINANCE
a speculative investor is willing to accept a high level of risk in the hope of making a profit:
This stock should only be considered by the speculative investor.

Examples of speculative

speculative
The second half of the book, interpretative as it is, is both more suggestive and more speculative.
In such an admittedly speculative scenario, it would be island-non-island comparisons that would be expected to produce distinctive elite -non-elite ar tifact distributions.
No less revealing was die supposedly sober businessman's readiness to enter the highly dangerous and speculative world of piracy.
Although assigning parasite species to guilds remains highly speculative, acanthocephalans and cestodes, as absorbers, are interpreted here as members of the same feeding guild.
He gives good intuitive explanations about possible causes of loops, essentially circular modes and speculative output bindings.
He gives a speculative prehistory of hominid vocal development employing infrastructural descriptors.
Nevertheless, future work should include a closer inversigation of the details of the speculative-computation support that is required by the algorithm.
However, the boom continued and sterling also came under intense speculative pressure.
Rottschaefer criticizes our "speculative cost/benefit estimate" for religion as unsupported.
The extent to which rents accrue through these corporate interlocks can only be speculative.
The lack of close chronological control on most of the field data and the few excavations render conclusions in this sphere highly speculative.
The function of lipids within the intramolluscan stages is speculative and suggested functions are buoyancy, energy reserves, metabolic waste products, and others.
The need to avoid speculative investment was high on his list; often private companies were only interested in expatriating their profits as fast as possible.
Projects rewarded individuals' inventiveness, industry, or speculative talents and did so from otherwise untapped wealth.
Thus, this paper is to an extent speculative in terms of the issues that it raises and the observations made.
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