speculative work , also: spec work

As an employee, you also do speculative work which may never be recognized.

He refuses to do speculative work in order to win accounts.

They should pay more attention when it comes to potential risks of entering into speculative work.

As a result, less priority was being given to regulatory issues and to speculative work on innovative products.

As for designers, speculative work can provide them with an opportunity to gain experience, build portfolio, and meet people.

Wright indicated that he did not design speculative work, rather only designed homes for "people who deserved them."

On a short term basis speculative work is a gamble as it is always difficult to sell.

"Yet clients want more and more in new business presentations; speculative work has become the standard.

• Every three years, long term speculative work is peer-reviewed for relevance and scientific excellence.

It features speculative work in progress by contemporary philosophers, along with contributions from artists, scientists and other writers outside of philosophy.

Glumly sober but lacking in emotional and moral weight, it often feels like a speculative work of science fiction.

In design contest, which is an example of speculative work, the client provided participating designers with a brief prize for the eventual winner.

One main attraction of using speculative work is that it can benefit the clients by bringing cheaper cost and more variations and ideas.

It is also exactly the kind of messy, unsubtle, intrusive and speculative work the man himself understandably shunned.

Orders and speculative work of an experimental nature prepared at the buyer's request shall be considered an order and charged for accordingly.

We require 3 writing samples, which may include past marketing work or speculative work presenting a Google product to a prospective advertiser.

Mr. Lord said that his agency had not presented any speculative work, but rather had discussed directions and strategy about advertising with executives of the firm.

The risks of speculative work make some designers feel the repulsion of Crowdsourcing Creative Work.

Although the downturn in speculative work has unquestionably hurt industrial developers, the pain is being eased somewhat by the size of many of the build-to-suit projects.

Later in his career he turned to more speculative work on the environment, exploring the possibility that the atmosphere could be cleansed of certain pollutants using powerful lasers.

Power to the Edge is a speculative work suggesting that modern military environments are far too complex to be understood by any one individual, organisation, or even military service.

Cover for Speculative Work and Display Homes are automatically extended after completion pending sale, to maximum of 12 months from the construction commencement.

Expectations for the drama -- a speculative work about the last day in the life of Martin Luther King Jr. -- are high.

The slowdown in speculative work is expected to continue this year and into 1993, said Leigh Burch, vice president of Atlanta-based Jamison Research Inc.

By the late 1950's, about half of all account reviews included some form of speculative work, Mr. Cummings said, although they rarely involved anything more expensive than storyboards.