open
adjective
not closed or barred at the time, as a doorway by a door, a window by a sash, or a gateway by a gate.
Used to describe a continuous action that will progress up until a designated point of completion in the future.
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America will have been opening up channels of international trade and international finance, and so New York will have been gaining at the expense of London.
From War-Time Financial Problems by Withers, Hartley