спекулировать

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Russian

Etymology

Perhaps from German spekulieren +‎ -овать (-ovatʹ); see also -и́ровать (-írovatʹ).

Pronunciation

Verb

спекули́ровать (spekulírovatʹimpf

  1. (financial) to speculate, to profiteer, to gamble (in)
  2. (figurative) to exploit, to take advantage of
  3. to speculate (on)

Usage notes

Until fairly recently, спекули́ровать in Russian was used only in the financial sense: to make opportunistic investments. However, the word has increasingly adopted and been used with the additional English meaning: to make conclusions based on incomplete data.

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