Term: venture capitalist: a speculator who makes money available for innovative projects (especially in high technology)
Broader: speculator: someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains | Unrelated: ecology: the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment
Broader: speculator: someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains | Unrelated: veld: elevated open grassland in southern Africa
Broader: speculator: someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains | Unrelated: neroli oil: an odoriferous yellow oil found in orange flowers and used in perfumery and as a flavoring
Broader: speculator: someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains | Unrelated: market economy: an economy that relies chiefly on market forces to allocate goods and resources and to determine prices
Broader: speculator: someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains | Unrelated: holster: a belt with loops or slots for carrying small hand tools
Broader: speculator: someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains | Unrelated: germanium: a brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite
Broader: speculator: someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains | Unrelated: psychosexual development: (psychoanalysis) the process during which personality and sexual behavior mature through a series of stages: first oral stage and then anal stage and then phallic stage and then latency stage and finally genital stage
Broader: speculator: someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains | Unrelated: saddle horse: a lightweight horse kept for riding only
Broader: speculator: someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains | Unrelated: steering linkage: mechanism consisting of a system of rods and levers connected to the front wheels of a motor vehicle; the steering gear pushes it left or right which swivels the front wheels, causing the vehicle to turn
Broader: speculator: someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains | Unrelated: sticking point: a point at which an impasse arises in progress toward an agreement or a goal