(grammar) The present tense as used by convention to describe events in fictional works, such as when explaining the plot of a book or film.

(grammar) A proposed inflectional class of the Proto-Indo-European verb, characterized by accent on the root in all of the person-number forms.

Now is an appropriate time to take a particular action.

Clipping of there's no time like the present.

(grammar) A tense that expresses an unbroken action continuing at the present time, started in the past. In English it is formed by using have been with a present participle.

(grammar) present perfect continuous

plural of present perfect progressive

(finance) The present value of a project or an investment decision determined by summing the discounted incoming and outgoing future cash flows resulting from the decision.

A fictional ghost in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, who visits Ebenezer Scrooge accompanied by a great feast in order to show him events of the current Christmas.

Alternative form of present company excepted