To be determined

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To Be Announced (TBA)Template:Ref, To Be Confirmed (TBC), To Be Determined (TBD) and To Be Released (TBR), almost always used in their abbreviated forms, denote that the datum, of which TB(A/C/D/R) is a stand-in, is yet to be announced/confirmed/determined/released at the time of writing.

Application

These acronyms are often used in early-to-mid-stage engineering project documentation and preliminary contracts in industry. Although used for all kinds of interim/preliminary or unknown-at-the-time-of-writing data, the most common uses in engineering documents and contracts are related to:

• dates of commencement, completion, etc; estimated total or remaining time to do a specific work task
• money amounts, i.e. costs, prices
• physical or derived quantities as-yet-to-be-obtained from tests/measurements
• engineering values depending on one or more of the above, with safety margins included

The abbreviations are also widely used in entertainment writings and listings for cast and crew information, broadcast and film release dates, and production titles for which information has yet to be confirmed, decided upon, or announced.

Notes

1. Template:Note In some settings, TBA may stand for To Be Ascertained

See also

• ASAP (informal)
• Real soon now (informal)