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Make retroactive
Answer for the clue "Make retroactive ", 8 letters:
backdate
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Word definitions for backdate in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ About 60,000 part-time workers have won the right to pension benefits backdated to 1976. ▪ But Sting's royalty rate was increased, and backdated, giving him an immediate cash payment of some £100,000. ▪ If you delay claiming ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. To give or assign a date to a document that is earlier than the current date.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also back-date , by 1881 (implied in back-dated ), from back (adv.) + date (v.1). Compare antedate . Related: Backdated ; backdating .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
backdate \back"date\ v. t. to make effective from an earlier date; to make retroactive. The increase in tax was backdated to January. Syn: back-date to affix a date earlier than the present date; -- sometimes done for fraudulent purposes. Opposite of postdate ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. make effective from an earlier date; "The increase in tax was backdated to January"
Usage examples of backdate.
Marsh, claiming that there were discrepancies in Copes reports and suggesting that he had backdated a number of reports to claim priority for his work, mounted a campaign to determine precisely the dates of Copes reports, when those reports were made public, and when and in what form they were published.
As she got into the passenger seat she passed him the backdated note he had asked her to write.
It certainly would have been more expedient had you previously filled out an application at the administration office, but I may he able to slip through a backdated STA111.
After a five-minute interview Andy was talking to girls in the playground while a pallid headmistress backdated his entrance forms.
He would transfer just a small percentage of the account balance into an offshore bank account in the Bahamas, backdating the transaction so it appeared in the Bank of Boston’s records to have been authorized prior to the account-holder’s death.
She had considered using one of Malcolm's chits that were in the desk, backdating it, using the chop from the safe but thought that unwise for the moment.
We just backdate this form and youve already had your cooling-off period.