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CONTRARIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does contrarian mean? 

CONTRARIAN (noun)
  The noun CONTRARIAN has 1 sense:

1. an investor who deliberately decides to go against the prevailing wisdom of other investorsplay

  Familiarity information: CONTRARIAN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CONTRARIAN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An investor who deliberately decides to go against the prevailing wisdom of other investors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("contrarian" is a kind of...):

investor (someone who commits capital in order to gain financial returns)


 Context examples 


The last telltale sign of Planet Nine's presence involves the solar system's contrarians: objects from the Kuiper Belt that orbit in the opposite direction from everything else in the solar system.

(The Super-Earth that Came Home for Dinner, NASA)



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