Future Perfect definition

Future Perfect

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WordNet

(1) A perfective tense used to describe action that will be completed in the future

"`I will have finished' is an example of the future perfect"

WiktionaryText

A tense that expresses action completed at some time in the future; in English it is formed by use of will have (or shall have) and a past participle

The sentence, “In a few years time we will have almost completed this dictionary,” is in the future perfect.