An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
SPECULATOR
speculator, plunger
(noun) someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains
speculator
(noun) someone who makes conjectures without knowing the facts
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
speculator (plural speculators)
One who speculates; an observer; a contemplator.
One who forms theories; a theorist.
(business, finance) One who speculates; as in investing, one who is willing to take volatile risks upon invested principal for the potential of substantial returns.
(rugby) synonym of field goal
Anagrams
• copulaters, outparcels, outplacers, peculators
Source: Wiktionary
Spec"u*la`tor, n. Etym: [L., a spy, explorer, investigator: cf. F. spéculateur.]
Definition: One who speculates. Specifically: (a) An observer; a contemplator; hence, a spy; a watcher. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. (b) One who forms theories; a theorist. A speculator who had dared to affirm that the human soul is by nature mortal. Macaulay. (c) (Com.)
Definition: One who engages in speculation; one who buys and sells goods, land, etc., with the expectation of deriving profit from fluctuations in price.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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