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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
forward-looking
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Assistance with childcare costs is offered by some forward-looking companies.
▪ We like to think we're a forward-looking company that isn't afraid to use new ideas.
▪ We need more forward-looking political thinking.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And his interest in the sport is intensely forward-looking.
▪ As I said, we're an old established company, but we're forward-looking and vigorous.
▪ In response to the difficult situation schools find themselves in, a critical and forward-looking approach to curriculum renewal was developed.
▪ Rather, you will create a strong, forward-looking tone that is realistic and convincing.
▪ The appeal to the past was thus developed into a forward-looking philosophy of history.
▪ The liberal-historical approach by contrast is more forward-looking in character.
▪ Unfortunately, even the most forward-looking women assume a linear progression toward equality.
▪ We have to ask by what means this free and forward-looking imagination can be cultivated at school.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
forward-looking

forward-looking \forward-looking\ adj. planning for the future; concerned primarily with the future; -- contrasted with conern for the immediate present or reacting to past events. backward-looking

Wiktionary
forward-looking

a. Having an interest in the future, and planning for it

WordNet
forward-looking

adj. ahead of the times; "the advanced teaching methods"; "had advanced views on the subject"; "a forward-looking corporation"; "is British industry innovative enough?" [syn: advanced, innovative, modern]

Usage examples of "forward-looking".

In the sixties, when Cadillacs were futuristically self-assured, I was also self-confident and forward-looking.

Denning pointed out that the attitude of hackers were at least partially shared by forward-looking management theorists in the business community: people like Peter Drucker and Tom Peters.

Loop involvement, which was the preparatory-stage management strategy, was a grand forward-looking idea, but after four decades of accumulated optimization the Third Fleet software had become classic bloatware, total deadweight.

Now the family unit was viewed as the foundation of strength, a forward-looking symbol of the future, humanity's only salvation.

An H-60 launches from Elizabeth City, escorted by a tanker plane, and a Navy jet equipped with forward-looking infrared is readied for takeoff.