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41speculative grade debt — See sub investment grade loan. Practical Law Dictionary. Glossary of UK, US and international legal terms. www.practicallaw.com. 2010 …
42speculative fee — See contingency fee. Collins dictionary of law. W. J. Stewart. 2001 …
43Speculative poetry — Also variously called science fiction poetry or SF poetry or fantastic poetry, speculative poetry is to poetry roughly what speculative fiction is to fiction. Speculative poetry is often published by the same markets that publish science fiction …
44Speculative execution — In computer science, speculative execution is the execution of code, the result of which may not be needed. In the context of functional programming, the term speculative evaluation is used instead.TypesGenerally, statements and definitions in a… …
45Speculative attack — A speculative attack is the massive selling of a country s currency assets by both domestic and foreign investors. Countries that utilize a fixed exchange rate are more susceptible to a speculative attack than countries utilizing a floating… …
46speculative grammar — a linguistic theory of the Middle Ages, especially the second half of the 13th century. It is “speculative” not in the modern sense but as the word is derived from the Latin speculum (“mirror”), indicating a belief that language reflects… …
47Speculative Company — A company with a significant percentage of its assets tied up in projects with uncertain returns. A speculative company participates in projects with high probability of failure. However, should a project succeed, the returns can be very large.… …
48Speculative Flow — The movement of speculative capital between different assets or areas of the economy. Speculative flow can increase the value of an asset due to increased investor demand. For example, assume that investors believe the technology sector will… …
49Speculative Risk — A category of risk that, when undertaken, results in an uncertain degree of gain or loss. All speculative risks are made as conscious choices and are not just a result of uncontrollable circumstances. Speculative risk is the opposite of pure risk …
50Speculative Grammarian — Infobox Journal discipline = Satirical Linguistics abbreviation = SpecGram website = http://specgram.com publisher = Trey Jones [2004 ] country = USA history = 1988 to present ISSN = 1938 0720about|the satirical linguistics journal|information… …
