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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).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, finance
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Antonyms: none provided
an agreement to buy or sell a specific amount of a commodity or financial instrument at a particular price on a stipulated future date; the contract can be sold before the settlement date
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: derivative instrument, derivative
Narrower terms: stock-index futures
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Across languages
Translations
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Mandarin:
期貨合約 /期货合约
(qīhuò héyuē)
— contract traded on a futures exchange
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Chinese Mandarin:
期貨 /期货
(qīhuò)
— contract traded on a futures exchange
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Chinese Mandarin:
期貨交易合同 /期货交易合同
(qīhuò jiāoyì hétóng)
— contract traded on a futures exchange
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Finnish:
futuurisopimus
— contract traded on a futures exchange
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Finnish:
futuuri
— contract traded on a futures exchange
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French:
contrat à terme
— contract traded on a futures exchange
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Georgian:
ფიუჩერსული კონტრაქტი
(piučersuli ḳonṭrakṭi)
— contract traded on a futures exchange
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Georgian:
ფიუჩერსის კონტრაქტი
(piučersis ḳonṭrakṭi)
— contract traded on a futures exchange
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German:
Futures-Kontrakt
— contract traded on a futures exchange
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German:
Terminkontrakt
— contract traded on a futures exchange
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German:
Future
— contract traded on a futures exchange
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Indonesian:
kontrak berjangka
— contract traded on a futures exchange
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Japanese:
先物取引
(sakimono torihiki)
— contract traded on a futures exchange
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Japanese:
先物
(sakimono)
— contract traded on a futures exchange
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Kazakh:
фьючерс
(füçers)
— contract traded on a futures exchange
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Korean:
선물
(seonmul)
— contract traded on a futures exchange
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Kyrgyz:
фьючерс
(fyucers)
— contract traded on a futures exchange
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Persian:
قرارداد آتی
— contract traded on a futures exchange
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Russian:
фью́черсный контра́кт
(fʹjúčersnyj kontrákt)
— contract traded on a futures exchange
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Russian:
фью́черс
(fʹjúčers)
— contract traded on a futures exchange
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Spanish:
contrato de futuros
— contract traded on a futures exchange
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Tamil:
முன்பேர ஒப்பந்தம்
(muṉpēra oppantam)
— contract traded on a futures exchange
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Thai:
สัญญาซื้อขายล่วงหน้า
(sǎn-yaa-sʉ́ʉ-kǎai-lûuang-nâa)
— contract traded on a futures exchange
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Turkish:
future sözleşme
— contract traded on a futures exchange
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Ukrainian:
ф'ю́черсний контра́кт
(fʺjúčersnyj kontrákt)
— contract traded on a futures exchange
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Ukrainian:
ф'ю́черс
(fʺjúčers)
— contract traded on a futures exchange
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Vietnamese:
hợp đồng tương lai
— contract traded on a futures exchange
