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Contrarian

Definition: Contrarian

Contrarian

Noun

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Contrarian" is a common misspelling or typo for: contraries, contrition.


Specialty Definition: Contrarian

DomainDefinition

Finance

A manager who seeks to buy stocks that are at a discount to their "fair value" and sell them at or in excess of that value. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Contrarian

DomainTitle

Books

  • Contrarian Investing: Buy and Sell When Others Won't and Make Money Doing It (reference)

  • Contrarian Investment Strategy (reference)

  • Don't Send a Resume: And Other Contrarian Rules to Help Land a Great Job (reference)

  • High Tech Heretic: Reflections of a Computer Contrarian (reference)

  • Jenrette: The Contrarian Manager (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Contrarian

"Contrarian" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Contrarian" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Contrarian

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

contrarian

24

chronicle contrarian

13

contrarian investing

13

contrarian investor

6

capital contrarian

5

contrarian manager money

5

contrarian speculator

4

contrarian natural

4

contrarian investing value

4

capital contrarian management

3

contrarian stock

2

contrarian funds stock

2

contrarian economic update

2

contrarian trading

2

contrarian group

2

contrarian fund

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Contrarian

Language Translations for "contrarian"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

value manager (value manager). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

contrarian (value manager). (various references)

   

German

  

Contrarian (value manager), Value-Manager (value manager), antizyklischer Anleger (value manager). (various references)

   

Italian

  

value manager (value manager). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ontrariancay

   

Russian 

  

человек (a man of great worship, April-fool, bodybuilder, diarist, dieter, digamist, diner-out, fruitarian, fugleman, globe-trotter, good-timer, haemophiliac, hipster, hobbyist, hot stuff, human, human being, insomniac, interloper, irrepatriable, Job's post, kibitzer, killjoy, lawman, leading light, leaker, leaky vessel, left-winger, man, man set in authority, megalomaniac, middle-of-the-roader, name-child, Nosey Parker, nothingarian, pallbearer, person, prevaricator, prizeman, pseud, raver, returner, shopaholic, spoilsport, weather forecaster, wight 1, workaholic, worldling), который ведет себя не так, как другие. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

contrario (abhorrent, adverse, antipathetic, antipathetical, averse, contrary, counter, counteractive, enemy, opponent, oppose, opposite, reverse). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Contrarian

Derivations

Words beginning with "contrarian": contrarians. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Contrarian"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "contrarian" (pronounced kÄ'ntre"rēun)
6-r e" r ē u nagrarian, librarian.
5-e" r ē u nauthoritarian, barbarian, carrion, centenarian, Clarion, disciplinarian, egalitarian, humanitarian, libertarian, majoritarian, nonsectarian, octogenarian, ovarian, parliamentarian, planarian, proletarian, sectarian, seminarian, septuagenarian, totalitarian, unitarian, utilitarian, vegetarian, veterinarian.
4-r ē u ncenturion, criterion, Cyprian, equestrian, historian, hyperborean, pagurian, pedestrian, praetorian, presbyterian, salutatorian, valedictorian, valerian.
3-ē u naccordion, alien, amphibian, arcadian, bohemian, Campion, chameleon, champion, circadian, collodion, comedian, custodian, draconian, galleon, gorgonian, Guardian, halcyon, herculean, lesbian, mammalian, median, mediterranean, meridian, Napoleon, nickelodeon, oblivion, obsidian, Odeon, plutonian, scorpion, simian, subterranean, symbion, theologian, thespian, utopian.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Contrarian

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-n-n-o-r-r-t"

-1 letter: carnation, narration.

-2 letters: carrotin, raincoat.

-3 letters: actinon, anticar, cantina, carotin, carrion, contain, ocarina, tricorn.

-4 letters: acinar, action, anoint, antiar, aortic, arnica, aroint, arrant, atonic, cannot, canton, cantor, carina, carrot, carton, cation, citron, contra, cortin, crania, craton, incant, intron, nation, natron, nonart, rancor, ration, tannic, trocar.

-5 letters: acari, acorn, actin, actor, ancon, anion, antic, antra, aorta.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-n-n-o-r-r-t"
 

+1 letter: contrarians.

 

+3 letters: incarceration, narrowcasting, nonparametric, reincarnation.

 

+4 letters: containerboard, contractionary, incarcerations, narrowcastings, reincarnations.

 

+5 letters: containerboards, nonagricultural, nonaristocratic, procrastinating, procrastination, transcriptional.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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