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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 investors
Familiarity information: CONTRARIAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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