to-be en · NOUN
Etymology
From to + be.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The future, that which is to come.
[…] 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.
1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XL”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 63:Comparing the as-is to the to-be provides a gap analysis between where the organization is and where it wants to be.
2008, Keith D. Willett, Information Assurance Architecture, page 49:
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a suffix attached after nouns · to-come · -to-be