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futures

/ ˈfjuːtʃəz /

plural noun

    1. commodities or other financial products bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date See also financial futures
    2. ( as modifier )

      futures contract

      futures market



futures

  1. A contract to buy or sell a specified amount of a commodity or financial instrument at an agreed price at a set date in the future. If the price for the commodity or financial instrument rises between the contract date and the future date, the investor will make money; if it declines, the investor will lose money. The term also refers to the market for such contracts.


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Example Sentences

Later, he taught her how to smoke, and still later, they whispered of politics, and fears and hopes for their futures.

Many of them do not have the choice of opting out of their planned futures as the breadwinners.

Every day, their bodies, lives and futures are affected by politicians and policies they did not choose.

He soon invents the “Efram Daniels Expulsion Index (EDEI) … a hybrid futures and prediction market.”

The mainstream LGBT movement, meanwhile, still insists that neither of these futures will come to pass.

I worked a big deal in futures for their father this morning; nice girls; it's time they were getting married.

If you don't tell the truth, you may cost thousands of men their futures.

Such brilliant and flattering futures had opened before her, if she would but consent to give "private rehearsals."

Looking thus into their futures they were both very certain of themselves and of the roads which they were to travel.

To the day of his death he remained a faithful child of the fatherland, for which he hoped the greatest of futures.

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