arequestfor ajobsentto anemployer,evenif nojobhas beenadvertised, or theactofsendingsuchrequests:Newgraduatessometimesfindworkinsportsmarketingthroughspeculativeapplication, and that's alwaysworthatry.Shesentout severalspeculativeapplicationstofinancialfirms.(Definition ofspeculative applicationfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofspeculative application
speculative applicationAccording to my recollection that has been the onlyspeculativeapplicationaffecting green-belt land in which an inspector's report has been overruled in recent years.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Quite a number of the applicants would be making to some extent a purelyspeculativeapplication.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0These crazy precepts are probably little more than aspeculativeapplicationto the moral sphere of the doctrine that all things are non-existent and hence equivalent.FromProject GutenbergWe believe that these provisions help protect resources by reducing opportunities for speculative applications.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0This would only encourage speculative applications.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0We should have such a system rather than speculative applications that are based simply on profit and do not pay due attention to the application's environmental aspects.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/speculative-application##
