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peculate
(encz) | peculate,zpronevěřit v: (peníze) luke |
Peculate
(gcide) | Peculate \Pec"u*late\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Peculated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Peculating.] [L. peculatus, p. p. of peculari to
peculate, akin to peculium private property. See Peculiar.]
To appropriate to one's own use the property of the public;
to steal public moneys intrusted to one's care; to embezzle.
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An oppressive, . . . rapacious, and peculating
despotism. --Burke.
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peculate
(wn) | peculate
v 1: appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care)
fraudulently to one's own use; "The accountant embezzled
thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family"
[syn: embezzle, defalcate, peculate,
misappropriate, malversate] |
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peculate
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speculate
(encz) | speculate,spekulovat Pavel Machek; Giza |
speculated
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speculates
(encz) | speculates,spekuluje v: Zdeněk Brož |
Peculated
(gcide) | Peculate \Pec"u*late\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Peculated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Peculating.] [L. peculatus, p. p. of peculari to
peculate, akin to peculium private property. See Peculiar.]
To appropriate to one's own use the property of the public;
to steal public moneys intrusted to one's care; to embezzle.
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An oppressive, . . . rapacious, and peculating
despotism. --Burke.
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Speculate
(gcide) | Speculate \Spec"u*late\, v. t.
To consider attentively; as, to speculate the nature of a
thing. [R.] --Sir W. Hamilton.
[1913 Webster]Speculate \Spec"u*late\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Speculated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Speculating.] [L. speculatus, p. p. of
speculari to spy out, observe, fr. specula a lookout, fr.
specere to look. See Spy.]
1. To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing
it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to
contemplate; to theorize; as, to speculate on questions in
religion; to speculate on political events.
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It is remarkable that persons who speculate the most
boldly often conform with the most pefect quietude
to the external regulations of society. --Hawthorne.
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2. (Philos.) To view subjects from certain premises given or
assumed, and infer conclusions respecting them a priori.
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3. (Com.) To purchase with the expectation of a contingent
advance in value, and a consequent sale at a profit; --
often, in a somewhat depreciative sense, of unsound or
hazardous transactions; as, to speculate in coffee, in
sugar, or in bank stock.
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Speculated
(gcide) | Speculate \Spec"u*late\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Speculated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Speculating.] [L. speculatus, p. p. of
speculari to spy out, observe, fr. specula a lookout, fr.
specere to look. See Spy.]
1. To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing
it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to
contemplate; to theorize; as, to speculate on questions in
religion; to speculate on political events.
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It is remarkable that persons who speculate the most
boldly often conform with the most pefect quietude
to the external regulations of society. --Hawthorne.
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2. (Philos.) To view subjects from certain premises given or
assumed, and infer conclusions respecting them a priori.
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3. (Com.) To purchase with the expectation of a contingent
advance in value, and a consequent sale at a profit; --
often, in a somewhat depreciative sense, of unsound or
hazardous transactions; as, to speculate in coffee, in
sugar, or in bank stock.
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peculate
(wn) | peculate
v 1: appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care)
fraudulently to one's own use; "The accountant embezzled
thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family"
[syn: embezzle, defalcate, peculate,
misappropriate, malversate] |
speculate
(wn) | speculate
v 1: to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds;
"Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"
[syn: speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture,
hypothesize, hypothesise, hypothecate, suppose]
2: talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way
and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to
reach a conclusion; "We were speculating whether the
President had to resign after the scandal"
3: reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the
afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of
God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to
observe and start to excogitate" [syn: chew over, {think
over}, meditate, ponder, excogitate, contemplate,
muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate,
speculate]
4: invest at a risk; "I bought this house not because I want to
live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am
speculating" [syn: speculate, job] |
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