单词 | land-speculator |
释义 | > as lemmasland-speculator land-speculator n. ΚΠ 1798 I. Allen Nat. & Polit. Hist. Vermont 24 Lawyers and land speculators called on Mr. Allen. 1848 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (rev. ed.) ii. iii. 96 Like all land-speculators, he was much given to dreaming. 1873 ‘M. Twain’ & C. D. Warner Gilded Age l. 456 He might have been a ‘railroad man’, or a politician, or a land-speculator. 1948 Reader's Digest May 124/1 He was ill-educated, selfmade, an incurable land speculator. < as lemmas |
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