User Contributed Dictionary
Noun
futures- Plural of future
- commercial contracts to buy or sell specified quantities of something; such contracts may be traded
French
Adjective
f|p- Form of feminine plural, futur
Extensive Definition
Futures may mean:
Finance
- Futures contract, a tradable financial contract
- Futures exchange, a financial market where futures contracts are traded
- Futures (magazine), an American finance magazine
Social sciences
- Futures studies, multidisciplinary studies of patterns to determine the likelihood of future trends
- Futures (journal), an international futures studies journal
Music
- Futures
(album), a 2004 release by Jimmy Eat World
- "Futures" (song), a single from the above album
Other
- Futures and promises, computer programming code elements that act as a proxies for results that are not yet determined
- Futures tournaments, minor professional tennis events