futures

/ (ˈfjuːtʃəz) /

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pl n

commodities or other financial products bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future dateSee also financial futures
(as modifier)futures contract; futures market

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future interest, futureless, future life, future perfect, future-proof, futures, future shock, futures market, future value, futurism, futurist

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How to use futures in a sentence

Later, he taught her how to smoke, and still later, they whispered of politics, and fears and hopes for their futures.
Drawing on the Memories of Syrian Women|Masha Hamilton|November 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Many of them do not have the choice of opting out of their planned futures as the breadwinners.
Stepford Sororities: The Pressures of USC’s Greek Life|Maya Richard Craven|November 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Every day, their bodies, lives and futures are affected by politicians and policies they did not choose.
Paying Taxes and Going to Jail Like Adults; Teens Deserve the Right to Vote, Too|Jillian Keenan|October 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He soon invents the “Efram Daniels Expulsion Index (EDEI) … a hybrid futures and prediction market.”
In a New Novel, Apathetic Teenagers Usher in the Apocalypse|Elliot Ackerman|June 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The mainstream LGBT movement, meanwhile, still insists that neither of these futures will come to pass.
Were Christians Right About Gay Marriage All Along?|Jay Michaelson|May 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I worked a big deal in futures for their father this morning; nice girls; it's time they were getting married.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
If you don't tell the truth, you may cost thousands of men their futures.
A World is Born|Leigh Douglass Brackett
Such brilliant and flattering futures had opened before her, if she would but consent to give "private rehearsals."
Interrupted|Pansy
Looking thus into their futures they were both very certain of themselves and of the roads which they were to travel.
Children of the Whirlwind|Leroy Scott
To the day of his death he remained a faithful child of the fatherland, for which he hoped the greatest of futures.
Karl Marx|Achille Loria

Cultural definitions for futures

futures

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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Cultural definitions for futures