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in future

  1. (UK) From now on.
    • 1971, The Future Management of Water in England and Wales, H.M. Stationery Office, page 2:
      Chapter 4 is devoted to setting out the kind of planning and co-ordination we consider to be necessary in future.
  2. (UK) In the future: at some future time(s).
    • 1801, George Edwards, Radical Means of Counteracting the Present Scarcity, and Preventing Famine in Future, J. G. Barnard, page 10:
      … and if the national debt were liquidated in the manner it ought, and readily might, the nation, it is to be hoped, would in future extend the public money to other purpoſes, than thoſe to which it has hitherto been appropriated, …

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