to-be
See also: Appendix:Variations of "tobe"
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to-be (uncountable)
- The future, that which is to come.
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XL, page 63:
- […] I shall be thy mate no more,
Tho’ following with an upward mind
The wonders that have come to thee,
Thro’ all the secular to be,
But evermore a life behind.
- 2008, Keith D. Willett, Information Assurance Architecture, page 49:
- Comparing the as-is to the to-be provides a gap analysis between where the organization is and where it wants to be.
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- as-is; see also Thesaurus:the present