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Concerned with or relating to the future.

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Usage examples (31)
  • Adjective : prospective earnings. ,a prospective partner
  • There is no doubt that the section is lawful if applied prospectively, that is, to mortgages issued after the law goes into effect.
  • More than 90 percent were scanned with the most advanced machines and with the latest x-ray trimming technique, called prospectively gated CT.
  • Q Well, let me ask the question prospectively, then.
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