Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

futures contract

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.81 in modern English

Syllables: fu-tures -con-tract
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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).

Example Sentences

"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."

Inflected Forms

futures contracts (plural)

Phrases

forward contract

Frequently Paired Words

actuals forward contract

Synonyms

futures

Questions

What does futures contract mean?: 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).

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