future generation
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffutureandgeneration
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future
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈfjuː.tʃər/us/ˈfjuː.tʃɚ/
happening or existing in ...
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generation
noun
uk/ˌdʒen.əˈreɪ.ʃən/us/ˌdʒen.əˈreɪ.ʃən/
all the people of about the same age within a society or within a ...
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(Definition offutureandgenerationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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A man is tempted to grow trees only for afuturegeneration.
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We must get into our schools men who will really take in hand the training of thefuturegeneration.
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Certainly, but thefuturegenerationdo not always follow at a precise date after marriage.
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I stress again that no decisions have yet been taken on the various proposals forfuturegeneration.
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At the same time, its ability to promote and sustain development is being diminished by the alienation of the naturally expandingfuturegeneration.
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We have some detailed models of it now, but perhaps we must wait for afuturegenerationto determine exactly why gravity occurs.
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Increasingly, his hopes centred on thefuturegenerationwhich might be infused with new martial values.
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Reciprocity worked over time between different generations: what was given today to the older generation would be received tomorrow by thefuturegeneration.
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Educators not only need to be in touch with the present generation of parents, but also thefuturegeneration.
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Sons are essential to the parents because they, rather than daughters are thought to bear the responsibility for carrying the family line to thefuturegeneration.
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Every cent more spent on education will produce a hundredfold return in a contented and strongfuturegeneration.
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He must recognise the possibility offuturegenerationusing lignite.
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Yet these savings are crucially important, not only to the economy but to thefuturegenerationof pensioners.
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What more encouragement could be offered to afuturegenerationof educated people?
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Most importantly, the group has strengthened its training for thefuturegenerationof engineers and technicians in the industry.
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Such initiatives not only make the audit more cost-effective but involve thefuturegeneration.
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Thefuturegenerationwill be sickly, ill-nourished, and a disgrace to the civilised world.
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That is the real point, and it is those people for whom we ought to legislate rather than for afuturegenerationof factory workers.
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