"to-be" meaning in English

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "as-is"
    },
    {
      "word": "the present"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "to",
        "3": "be"
      },
      "expansion": "to + be",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From to + be.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "to-be (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XL, page 63:",
          "text": "[…] I shall be thy mate no more,\nTho’ following with an upward mind\n⁠The wonders that have come to thee,\n⁠Thro’ all the secular to be,\nBut evermore a life behind.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Keith D. Willett, Information Assurance Architecture, page 49:",
          "text": "Comparing the as-is to the to-be provides a gap analysis between where the organization is and where it wants to be.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The future, that which is to come."
      ],
      "id": "en-to-be-en-noun-kGVLauXA",
      "links": [
        [
          "future",
          "future"
        ],
        [
          "come",
          "come"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "-to-be"
        },
        {
          "word": "a suffix attached after nouns"
        },
        {
          "word": "to-come"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "the future"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "to-be"
}

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "as-is"
    },
    {
      "word": "the present"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "to",
        "3": "be"
      },
      "expansion": "to + be",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From to + be.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "to-be (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "-to-be"
    },
    {
      "word": "a suffix attached after nouns"
    },
    {
      "word": "to-come"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XL, page 63:",
          "text": "[…] I shall be thy mate no more,\nTho’ following with an upward mind\n⁠The wonders that have come to thee,\n⁠Thro’ all the secular to be,\nBut evermore a life behind.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Keith D. Willett, Information Assurance Architecture, page 49:",
          "text": "Comparing the as-is to the to-be provides a gap analysis between where the organization is and where it wants to be.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The future, that which is to come."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "future",
          "future"
        ],
        [
          "come",
          "come"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "the future"
    }
  ],
  "word": "to-be"
}