speculative

• Trades are done online and can be best described as a speculative market. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
• This is an inherently destructive act, one that is anti-capitalist in the sense that it undercuts industrial growth in favor of interest extraction and short-term speculative gains. —  Vive Le Canada - All Stories - Vive Le Canada
• Daisy looks speculative, and as the ship rocks, whispers to Shane to wait a wee bit more, as we see ... she's got very sharp spurs on her boots. —  Pretty, Fizzy Paradise
• The judge said that concerns that a bankruptcy proceeding would increase administrative costs or delay recovery by victims is "speculative, and outweighed by the benefits to Mr. Madoff's victims of a Bankruptcy Trustee's orderly and equitable administration of his individual estate." —  Law.com - Newswire
• People in big business, especially finance, made huge profits because the macroeconomic policies favoured their short-term speculative endeavours. —  Engineering News | Home

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