In our part of the country home building is done on spec.

He finally got permission to write the piece on spec.

So, the entrepreneur or business manager will buy on spec.

"It would be too high a risk to build on spec," he said.

"They're not going to give you cost recovery on spec," he said.

If you plan to camp in high season, don't just turn up on spec.

We are not giving out those kind of contracts on spec anymore.

But developers aren't the only people in town building on spec.

A writer is asked to create a sample chapter on spec.

"Nobody is going to build buildings on spec," he said.

We do top-grade work here, and use no products on spec.

I think you should actually pick up the phones instead of judging them on specs.

Eventually, in 1990, he decided to write a comedy on spec for Hollywood.

At that point, the city and the development company resolved to build the house on spec, as a tribute.

He decided to become a writer instead and began sending out scripts on spec.

"They bought them on spec and the banks made mortgages," he said.

"We actually have a developer willing to build on spec, and to pay rent as well."

As you can gather, in today's market, few people are building on spec."

Houses built on spec are furnished right down to the towels and the books.

They hired me to bring them another, but insisted it be on spec."

In the second season, he wrote an episode "on spec" and was stunned by its acceptance.

He did some shoots on spec and shopped them around to magazines.

Others have been taken "on spec" and placed with suitable magazines at a later date.

They may have been composed, as the building trade calls it, "on spec," without ever finding a buyer.

Falk asked Davis to do a dozen panels on spec.