- the time yet to come
- yet to be or coming; "some future historian will evaluate him"
- a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future
- effective in or looking toward the future; "he was preparing for future employment opportunities"
- bulk commodities bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date
- future(a): (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving; "our next president"
- The future is the indefinite time period after the present. Whether it's less than a millisecond away or a billion years, its arrival is considered inevitable due to the existence of time and the laws of physics. ...
- In finance, a futures contract is a standardized contract between two parties to buy or sell a specified asset of standardized quantity and quality at a specified future date at a price agreed today (the futures price). The contracts are traded on a futures exchange. ...
- In computer science, future, promise, and delay refer to constructs used for synchronization in some concurrent programming languages. They describe an object that acts as a proxy for a result that is initially not known, usually because the computation of its value has not yet completed.
- The Future is a record album from 1992 and is one of the most popular albums recorded by Leonard Cohen. It has come to be recognized as his essential "film-score" album as nearly every one of the songs on the album has appeared in some notable form in a Hollywood film.
- The Human League are an English electronic new wave band formed in Sheffield, England in 1977. They achieved popularity after a key change in line-up in the early 1980s and have continued recording and performing with moderate commercial success throughout the 1980s up to the present day.
- The Future is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
- (futurely) (adv): in the future. FS (1-TNK); Chapman Iliad (1st OED citation).
- A Futures Contract is an agreement between a buyer and a seller to receive and deliver on a future date a specified amount of a product at an agreed price.
- (Futures) An obligation to exchange a good or instrument at a set price on a future date. The primary difference between a Future and a Forward is that Futures are typically traded over an exchange while forwards are traded over the counter (OTC).
- (Futures) A financial contract obligating the buyer to purchase an asset (or the seller to sell an asset), such as a physical commodity or a financial instrument, at a predetermined future date and price. ...
- (Futures) A commodity contract is a commitment which requires delivery or receipt of a commodity at an agreed future date, at an agreed price established by public auction in the trading pit of an organized public commodity exchange.
- (Futures) Securities or goods bought or sold at a fixed price for future delivery. There may be no intention to take them up but to rely upon price changes in order to sell at a profit before delivery.
- Futures are bets that will be decided by multiple contests, or by a contest that is more than about a week away. An example of a futures bet is a wager on whether the Yankees will win more than 92 games in the upcoming season.
- (Futures) (Also, Ante Post) Bets placed in advance predicting the outcome of a future event.
- (Futures) An obligation to buy or sell a specified quantity of an underlying asset at some time in the future, at a price which is agreed when the contract is executed.
- (Futures) A term used to designate all contracts covering the purchase and sale of financial instruments or physical commodities for future delivery on a commodity futures exchange.
- (Futures) refers to a type of wager involving the outcome of a season or tournament for a team or player.
- (Futures) Standardised forward contracts traded on a stock exchange under which a commodity traded in a money, capital, precious metal or currency market is to be delivered or accepted at a price fixed in an exchange environment.
- (Futures) Any bet placed on the future of a sporting team or player. For example, a wager that an American College Football player will be drafted in the first round, or that an NHL Hockey team will win the Stanley Cup.