land speculator
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflandandspeculator
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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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(Definition oflandandspeculatorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofland speculator
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One can be alandspeculator—some of them make the train robbers look like juvenile delinquents.
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He is thinking of the purelandspeculator, 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 andlandspeculator.
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He is not alandspeculatoror shark.
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He was not alandspeculator.
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Does not thelandspeculatorhave an interest in inflation?
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But thelandspeculatorcan gamble, and if he loses in his gamble he is to be compensated.
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Alandspeculatorbought the whole thing, lock, stock and barrel.
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Will he also ensure that the developer, if such should apply, is abone fidedeveloper and not alandspeculator?
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We are not here to defend thelandspeculator.
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I imagine he sold it to alandspeculator.
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It was because they deliberately put the land at the mercy of thelandspeculatorthat we have been faced with a land crisis today.
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I believe that the intention is to get at thelandspeculator, but it is ridiculous to associate thelandspeculatorwith the owner-occupier.
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To thelandspeculatorand 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 andlandspeculator.
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The people's industry creates them, and thelandspeculatorpockets them.
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We have all of us known cases of that kind and the particular type oflandspeculatorthat it produces.
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In other words, thelandspeculatoris set free to speculate.
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How much does alandspeculatorcontribute 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 alandspeculator.
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