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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
up-to-date
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
new/modern/up-to-date
▪ The factory has some of the most up-to-date equipment available.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
▪ Miss Bosworth's hat library includes a collection of styles from the forties, fifties and sixties as well as more up-to-date models.
▪ The Minister may tell me that there is a much more up-to-date set of statistics relating to police suspicions.
▪ Inside is yet more up-to-date technology.
▪ Underlying inflation during the past three months gives a more up-to-date reading.
▪ Ramsay was more up-to-date, a true child of the Enlightenment, emphasising individualism.
▪ I shall take a more up-to-date example than one from 1968.
most
▪ Benefits guide: Age Concern Cleveland is offering the most up-to-date guide to money benefits for older people.
▪ The most up-to-date figures present a less black picture than was thought to be the case at the time.
▪ Then, the most up-to-date release of Windows was version 2.
▪ This book is the most up-to-date and comprehensive volume on the whole region.
▪ It represents, according to my knowledge, the most up-to-date and comprehensive book in this rapidly growing subject area.
▪ The centre will present information in an attractive and accessible manner, using the most up-to-date scientific data.
▪ These systems require frequent attention and expense, and even the most up-to-date can be a nuisance to neighbours.
▪ Vova nevertheless has managed to make some of the funniest and most up-to-date Soviet sound recordings of the mid-Eighties.
■ NOUN
data
▪ The study of both rural population and employment, however, suffer from the difficulty of finding enough up-to-date data.
information
▪ Your own doctor or nearest family planning clinic will be able to give you up-to-date information on this.
▪ Full and part-time courses are continually running so call for up-to-date information.
▪ There are excellent review articles in, for example, Advances in Polymer Science, which provide up-to-date information.
▪ The ward sister has up-to-date information, for example, the social worker's reports or changes in treatment.
▪ The government may change the grants available, so it is essential to obtain up-to-date information.
▪ Mute Swans are fairly widely distributed breeding birds in Sussex, but little up-to-date information about numbers is available.
▪ They also have access to up-to-date information through a computer database.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
up-to-date training methods
up-to-date travel information
▪ a more up-to-date hairstyle
▪ Foreign embassies or consulates in the United States can provide up-to-date information on their countries.
▪ Is this map up-to-date? It doesn't seem to show the new road.
▪ The hospital has the most up-to-date equipment in Europe.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Find out about computers before you buy one by reading everything up-to-date that you can get your hands on.
▪ Our super results and fixtures service will keep you up-to-date with all the action.
▪ The Dogon were almost certainly visited late in the nineteenth century by missionaries who were up-to-date in terms of modern science.
▪ There are excellent review articles in, for example, Advances in Polymer Science, which provide up-to-date information.
▪ This book is the most up-to-date and comprehensive volume on the whole region.
▪ This understanding needs to be informed, up-to-date and backed by first-hand experience, not based on hearsay or second-hand impressions.
▪ Your own doctor or nearest family planning clinic will be able to give you up-to-date information on this.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Up-to-date

Up-to-date \Up`-to-date"\, a. Extending to the present time; having style, manners, knowledge, or other qualities that are abreast of the times. ``A general up-to-date style of presentment.''
--Nature. ``Everything's up-to-date in Kansas City.''

I must prefer to translate the poet in a manner more congenial if less up-to-date.
--Andrew Lang.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
up-to-date

1840, "right to the present time," from phrase up to date, probably originally from bookkeeping. As an adjective from 1865. Meaning "having the latest facts" is recorded from 1889; that of "having current styles and tastes" is from 1891.

Wiktionary
up-to-date

a. 1 (context before the noun English) current; recent; the latest 2 (context before the noun idiomatic English) informed about the latest news or developments, abreast alt. 1 (context before the noun English) current; recent; the latest 2 (context before the noun idiomatic English) informed about the latest news or developments, abreast

WordNet
up-to-date
  1. adj. reflecting the latest information or changes; "an up-to-date issue of the magazine"

  2. in accord with the most fashionable ideas or style; "wears only the latest style"; "the last thing in swimwear"; "knows the newest dances"; "cutting-edge technology"; "a with-it boutique" [syn: latest, last, newest, cutting-edge, with-it]

Usage examples of "up-to-date".

French Hospital, with its up-to-date modern operating theatre for tackling the wounds in a strictly aseptic and scientific way within a few hours of the men being hit, are a tremendous help.

It was the only one on Billabong, where all station details were strictly up-to-date.

The institute was a thoroughly modern and up-to-date facility, in keeping with the modern and up-to-date subjects taught within its walls: electricity and electronics, mechanics, plumbing, recycling and reclamation, construction, carpentry, accounting and bookkeeping, secretarial skills, data recording, computer programming and repair, cybernation maintenance, aeronautics, solar-cell construction, electrical generating, motion-picture projection, camera operation, audio recording, hydrogen-fusion operation, power broadcasting, electrical space propulsion, satellite construction and repair, telemetry, and many more.

He consulted more up-to-date charts on his tapas, a small personal computer, then gave the tag-numbers and geodesics to follow.

Written in an easy-to-read, question-and-answer format, this authoritative reference provides the most up-to-date and reliable information on biological agents like anthrax and smallpox, the dangers posed by chemical weapons, and the vulnerabilities of our food and water supplies.

Because of all the confusion, misinformation floating around, and the fact that very little information was then being made available, my staff and I immediately went to work to make the official Senator Bill Frist website a central place where anyone could go to find accurate, up-to-date, pertinent information both on anthrax generally and on the rapidly evolving situation in the Senate office buildings.

Many reached back several centuries, and all were now neatly listed in my sortable, printable, one hundred percent accurate and up-to-date catalog.

Still, we had done our best to free him from these undue burdens by precise, up-to-date, and superseding advice, which he rejected.

She had worked hard at various unremunerative employments since the death of her paralysed father early in the war, and when her Aunt Marian died, leaving her sole legatee, she gave away the clothes she had worn till she hated the sight of them, shook the dust of the latest boarding-house off her feet and moved in the luxurious up-to-date Parade Hotel at Sunhaven, prepared to enjoy as much of her life as remained to her.

Because I have thousands of people who rely on me for up-to-date, cutting-edge information about antiaging, weight loss, and health, my practice has always been somewhat ahead of the times, particularly when it comes to using clinical studies in the program.

The Deer Lake town fathers had seen a need for a pretty new building to house their jail and police department, but they were having a harder time seeing a need for up-to-date computer equipt had half a dozen PCs from ment.

But the DB III had the advantage of an up-to-date triptyque, an inconspicuous colour - battleship grey -and certain extras which might or might not come in handy.

On the right side stretched a mahogany bar with a brass footrail and surprisingly up-to-date beer pumps, guarding racks of bottles and drinking vessels.

It sounds so preposterously up-to-date and modernish for this darling, leisurely old place.

I should say that for six months, perhaps more, the British Communists will carry on as always, but that thereafter rifts will appear and the Party will either wither away or develop into a looser, less russophile organization under more up-to-date leadership.