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future contract

future contract is the alternative form of futures contract.

Meaning of futures contract

Noun

futures contract (plural futures contracts)

  1. A standardized contract, traded on a futures exchange, to buy or sell a standardized quantity of a specified commodity (or financial instrument) of standardized quality at a certain date in the future, at a stated price (the futures price).
    • He led the way with futures contracts (by which buyer and seller fix a price, immune from market fluctuations, for commodities that do not even exist at the time, such as crops yet to be sown) when these were exotic financial instruments few had hitherto tried.2022, Hernan Diaz, Trust, Picador (2023), page 139
    Synonyms:
    futures

Forms of future contract

pluralfuture contracts

Questions about future contract

What is future contract the alternative form of?
Future contract is the alternative form of futures contract.

Words near future contract in the dictionary

  1. futurate
  2. futurates
  3. future
  4. future bass
  5. future continuous
  6. future contract
  7. future contracts
  8. future endeavor
  9. future endeavored
  10. future endeavoring
  11. future endeavors

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