for future reference Definition

future
noun

1. The time to come; events that are still to occur.

Thesaurus: eternity, events to come, prospect, tomorrow, hereafter, by-and-by; Antonym: past.
2a. grammar.
The future tense;
2b. A verb in the future tense.
3. Prospects.

Example: must think about one's future
Thesaurus: destiny, fate, expectation, outlook, doom.
4. Likelihood of success.

Example: no future in that
5. stock exchange.
Commodities bought or sold at an agreed price, to be delivered at a later date, the price of which remains the same whether the market price of the particular commodity has fallen or risen in the meantime.
Form: futures

adj

1. Yet to come or happen.

Thesaurus: forthcoming, approaching, prospective, subsequent, fated, destined, later, expected, impending, eventual, to come, in the offing, to be; Antonym: past.
2. About to become.

Example: my future wife
3. grammar.
Said of the tense of a verb: indicating actions or events yet to happen, in English formed with the auxiliary verb will and infinitive without to, as in She will see him tomorrow. Compare past, present, perfect, pluperfect, imperfect.

Derivative: futureless
adj

Without prospects.

Idiom: for future reference

So that you will know the correct procedure when you do this again.

Idiom: in future

From now on.

Etymology: 14c: from Latin futurus about to be.