Definition of "should"
- verb
Used to form the future tense of the subjunctive mood, usually in the first person.
Be obliged to; have an obligation to; ought to; indicates that the subject of the sentence has some obligation to execute the sentence predicate.
Will likely (become or do something); indicates that the subject of the sentence is likely to execute the sentence predicate.
A variant of would.
- noun
A statement of what should be the case as opposed to what is the case.
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