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Definition of contrarian
: a person who takes a contrary position or attitude; specifically : an investor who buys shares of stock when most others are selling and sells when others are buying
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Examples of contrarian in a Sentence
As an investor, he's a contrarian, preferring to buy stocks when most people are selling.
Recent Examples of contrarian from the Web
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That has some contrarians worried about what will happen when central banks move away from stimulus.
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That has some contrarians worried about what will happen as the Federal Reserve continues raising interest rates and talks about paring back its bond investments.
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The extent to which Ivanka and Jared have carefully cultivated their positions as White House contrarians has been a marvel to behold.
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The role of defender of the Luddites likely would have appealed to Byron, whose signature character type was the Byronic hero—a passionate contrarian who fought against the prevailing beliefs of society.
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Matt, Jake, and I are fellow contrarians who relish a certain kind of archaic and analogue craftsmanship.
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As Jeff Bezos said of you in October, contrarians are usually wrong.
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Enter the Distributed Tactical Communications System, a brainchild of the futurists and contrarians at the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory.
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Did You Know?
Anyone who thinks that most of what the public believes is wrong would be called a contrarian. And contrarian is a basic term in the vocabulary of investing. In fact, most successful investors often behave like contrarians by "buying low and selling high"—that is, buying stocks that are cheap because most investors put a low value on them but that have the possibility of rising, and selling stocks that most investors are valuing highly but that seem likely to decline. The word may be most common as an adjective; so you may express a contrarian opinion, hold a contrarian view, or pursue a contrarian investment strategy.
Origin and Etymology of contrarian
see 1contrary
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CONTRARIAN Defined for English Language Learners
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: a person who takes an opposite or different position or attitude from other people
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