Definition of "would've" []

• Would have; indicating a non-occurring action or state that was conditional on another non-occurring event in the past. (phrase)

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• "According to league source, they told Smith that he wouldn't necessarily have to begin the season on the Physically Unable to Perform PUP list - a designation that would've cost him at least the first six weeks of the season."
• "No athlete was safe, from Tiger Woods (if he'd won the Masters, MacDonald figured, Jim Nantz's call would've been "a whoremonger no more!" to Lamar Odom (his reality show with wife Khloe Kardashian is "a clever combination of basketball and a bunch of s---.""
• "If public-sector unions had never been founded, labor would've been much weaker in the 20th century."