future
The time that comes after today or now.
The period of time that will come after now.
Saying that someone or something will be something later.
Describes someone or something that will become something else or take a certain role later.
A business deal to buy or sell something at a set price on a date in the future.
A standardized agreement to buy or sell an asset at a predetermined price at a specified time in the future, used in trading and investing.
- Base: future
- Base: future
- Plural: future, futures
future holds
1Events that will happen later
What will happen later in life or time.
- No one knows what the future holds.
- I wonder what the future holds for us.
in the near future
1Soon after now
Not long from now; soon.
- We plan to move to a bigger office in the near future.
- The company will release a new product in the near future.
in the foreseeable future
1At some time that can be predicted
At a time that we can reasonably guess or predict from now; not very far into the future, but not very soon either.
- Oil prices are not expected to fall in the foreseeable future.
- It is unlikely that the law will change in the foreseeable future.
in the foreseeable future
2Within predictable time ahead
In a time that we can guess or see coming soon.
- The law is unlikely to change in the foreseeable future.
- There are no plans to expand in the foreseeable future.