The future

Definition

future / 'fju:tʃǝ(r) / n ၁။ (က) the future [sing] အနာဂတ္။ လာလတၱံ႕ေသာကာလ။ အေလာင္းအလ်ာ။ in the near/ distant future (ie soon/not soon) ❍ Who knows what will happen in the future? ❍ ( grammar ) the future tense. (ခ) [C] ေရွ႕ေရး။ အနာဂတ္။ Her future is uncertain. ❍ The peoples of Europe are determining their own futures. ❍ The future of this project will be decided by the government. (ဂ) [U] အလားအလာ။ I gave up my job because there was no future in it. ❍ The government will decide if there is any future for the steel industry. ၂။ futures [pl] ( finance ) ႀကိဳေရာင္း၊ ႀကိဳဝယ္သည့္ ကုန္ပစၥည္း အစုရွယ္ယာ။ buy oil / coffee futures. adj …ေရွ႕။ အနာဂတ္။ ေနာင္။ …ေလာင္း။ her future husband/job/prospects ❍ future events/ generations. ❏ in future [ IDM ] ( Brit ) ေနာက္ေနာင္ကို။ ေနာင္တြင္။ Please be more punctual in future.

Examples

1. It’s important to plan for the future.
2. These young people are the leaders of the future.
3. [in the future] : Check if the computer can be upgraded in the future.
4. [in the near/not-too-distant/immediate future] : I have no plans to go abroad in the near future.
5. [what the future holds/will bring] : She has no idea what the future might hold for her.
6. [look to the future] : He can now look to the future with confidence again.
7. The future will depend on our willingness to conserve energy now.
8. Jack went on holiday to think about his future.
9. [uncertain/painful/bleak etc future] : The people of Grozny face an uncertain future.
10. [a bright future] : Joe has a bright future in athletics.
11. [have a future] : You won’t have much of a future unless you start working harder.
12. We need to safeguard our planet’s future.
13. We see no future in continuing the negotiations.
14. [future of] : The future of the business is in doubt.
15. Children are this country’s future.