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future

n. bulk commodities bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date

Future

n. [period of the time system, situated after the present]

future, future tense

n. a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future

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future

adj. yet to be or coming; "some future historian will evaluate him"

future

adj. a verb tense or other formation referring to events or states that have not yet happened; "future auxiliary"

eon, aeon

n. the longest division of geological time

eventuality, contingency, contingence

n. a possible event or occurrence or result

morrow

n. the next day; "whenever he arrives she leaves on the morrow"

forthcoming, imminent, impendent, impending

adj. close in time; about to occur; "retribution is at hand"; "some people believe the day of judgment is close at hand"; "in imminent danger"; "his impending retirement"

projected, proposed

adj. planned for the future; "the first volume of a proposed series"

likely, potential

adj. expected to become or be; in prospect; "potential clients"

yore

n. time long past

bygone, water under the bridge

n. past events to be put aside; "let bygones be bygones"

past

adj. earlier than the present time; no longer current; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year"

present(a)

adj. temporal sense; intermediate between past and future; now existing or happening or in consideration; "the present leader"; "articles for present use"; "the present topic"; "the present system"; "present observations"

bygone, bypast, departed, foregone, gone

adj. well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era"

former(a), late(a), previous(a)

adj. (used especially of persons) of the immediate past; "the former president"; "our late President is still very active"; "the previous occupant of the White House"

erstwhile(a), former(a), old, onetime(a), one-time(a), quondam(a), sometime(a)

adj. belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover"

other, early, former

adj. of the distant past: "the early inhabitants of Europe"; "former generations"; "in other times"

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