to-be

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tobe"

English

Etymology

From to + be.

Noun

to-be (uncountable)

  1. The future, that which is to come.
    • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, [], →OCLC, Canto XL, page 63:
      [] I shall be thy mate no more,
      Tho’ following with an upward mind
      ⁠The wonders that have come to thee,
      ⁠Thro’ all the secular to be,
      But evermore a life behind.
    • 2008, Keith D. Willett, Information Assurance Architecture, page 49:
      Comparing the as-is to the to-be provides a gap analysis between where the organization is and where it wants to be.

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