speculative venture
collocation in Englishmeaningsofspeculativeandventure
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speculative
adjective
uk/ˈspek.jə.lə.tɪv/us/ˈspek.jə.lə.t̬ɪv/
based on a guess and not ...
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venture
noun[C]
uk/ˈven.tʃər/us/ˈven.tʃɚ/
a new activity, usually in business, that involves risk ...
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(Definition ofspeculativeandventurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Such a book is unlikely to have been made as aspeculativeventure: on the contrary, it was probably the product of a specific commission.
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It is not really aspeculativeventurefor them, but an investment.
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It is often said that litigation is aspeculativeventure.
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How much has thisspeculativeventurecost us to date and how much is it likely to cost us in the next 18 months?
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It is not aspeculativeventure.
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It was a purelyspeculativeventure.
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The first is that, when you have a "dry" area, it provides a veryspeculativeventurefor the trade.
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What private investor would put money into such aspeculativeventurein which the costs are escalating so rapidly?
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Cannot we speed up the building of atomic power stations instead of investing our capital in what (judging by the 1950 report) is a highlyspeculativeventure?
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Nor should aspeculativeventurewhere for example someone has spent time producing a screenplay without any commission.
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One of the real difficulties is that many builders have acquired land well in advance of their requirements, as aspeculativeventure, hoping to obtain planning permission in the future.
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This is aspeculativeventure.
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Yet speculative ventures are suspect to many people.
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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).
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Another feature setting speculative ventures apart from 'normal' commercial ventures is the lure of large profits.
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Here we are contemplating their going into speculative ventures in competition with the private sector.
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They are not there to enter into loans on office property or other speculative ventures.
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The powers are not designed to enable the mayor to embark on speculative ventures.
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The reason it is so restricted is because it is not right to use public money for speculative ventures.
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We are not prepared to facilitate asset-stripping, or to inject large sums of public money into flimsy or speculative ventures.
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