For/in The Foreseeable Future - Longman Dictionary

English English English - Japanese English - Korean English - Spanish Japanese - English Spanish - English English English - Japanese English - Korean English - Spanish Japanese - English Spanish - English English 日本語 Español latino 한국어 for/in the foreseeable future From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfor/in the foreseeable futurefor/in the foreseeable futureFUTUREfor as long as it is possible to know what is likely to happen  The situation is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. → foreseeableExamples from the Corpusfor/in the foreseeable future• Arguments about this change continue to rage, and will probably burn on for the foreseeable future.• It would be unrealistic to not expect to pay higher royalties in the foreseeable future.• Later that same enemy had been bloodily counter attacked and neutralised as a threat for the foreseeable future.• No test of the planned system against even average-intelligence decoys is planned in the foreseeable future.• Now, and for the foreseeable future, the world is awash in plutonium.• She is sure that this will settle them for the foreseeable future.• To push them on decommissioning would be to remove any chance of it happening in the foreseeable future. Quizzes Quizzes

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