0 to guess possible answers to a question when you do not have enough information to be certain:
I don't know why she did it - I'm just speculating.
A spokesperson declined to speculate on the cause of the train crash.
Journalists are speculating about whether interest rates will be cut.
[ + that ] The newspapers have speculated that they will get married next year.
1 to buy and sell in the hope that the value of what you buy will increase and that it can then be sold at a higher price in order to make a profit:
2 to form opinions about something without having the necessary information or facts; to make guesses:
3 to buy and sell with the hope that the value of what you buy will increase and that it can then be sold at a higher price in order to make a profit:
4 to guess possible answers to a question when you do not have enough information to be certain:
speculate on/about sth Journalists are speculating about whether interest rates will be cut.
A spokesperson declined to speculate on the date of the merger.
speculate that Currency traders speculated that Japan's central bank might soon buy large amounts of dollars in the hope of preventing the yen from strengthening further
5 to buy something hoping that its value will increase and then sell at this higher price in order to make a profit:
It's useless to speculate without more information.
Royal-watchers have once again been speculating on the health of the princess.
Scientists have speculated about the possibility of parallel universes.
In addressing ourselves to this process, we are not speculating.
The next section outlines some of these processes and speculates how they may place children at risk.
They speculated that firm growth beyond a very small size might require a discrete jump to a significantly larger operation.
The author speculated that the variation in orientation behaviour may be driven by seasonal activity patterns.
Historians are on firmer ground reconstructing and analyzing past events than they are speculating about what might have happened.
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