n.
    - 
(the future)
 time that is still to come. 
▸events or conditions that will or are likely to occur at a later date.
 - a prospect of success or happiness:
 I might have a future as an artist.
 - Grammar  a tense of verbs expressing events that have not yet happened.
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(futures)
 contracts for assets (especially commodities or shares) bought at agreed prices but delivered and paid for later. Compare with forward (in sense 2).
 
adj.
  - existing or occurring in the future. 
▸planned or destined to hold a specified position:
 his future wife.
 - Grammar  (of a tense) expressing an event yet to happen.
 
 
  Phrase
  
    
      - in future
 from now onwards. 
    
   
  Derivative
  
  Etymology
  ME: via OFr. from L. futurus, future part. of esse ‘be’ (from the stem fu-, ult. from a base meaning ‘grow, become’).