backdate
back·date [ ˈbak-ˌdāt]
[ˈbak-ˌdāt]
backdated; backdating; backdates
transitive verb
: to put a date earlier than the actual one on
//backdate a memo
also : to make retroactive
//backdate pension rights
Recent Examples on the Web
//Athletes can only be punished for racking up three failures in a 12-month period, and the World Anti-Doping Agency said one should be backdated to fall outside that period.
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BostonGlobe.com, "Puerto Rico advances to second round of basketball World Cup," 4 Sep. 2019
//Zimmerman’s unlucky love streak backdates his recent ban from Tinder.
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oregonlive, "Bumble, Tinder refuse to let George Zimmerman use dating apps," 19 Apr. 2019
//The batsman has been banned for eight months by India's Board of Control for Cricket (BCCI) -- backdated to March 16.
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James Masters, CNN, "Prithvi Shaw banned from cricket after doping violation," 30 July 2019
//Prosecutors charge that McManus, Schrock and Williams, their accountant, then conspired to backdate paperwork, which showed McManus had actually resigned months earlier as CEO of Cal Prep Sutter.
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The Washington Post, The Mercury News, "How does a $50 million charter scam work? Here’s what happened in California (before 11 people were indicted).," 17 June 2019
//That means the state technically operated without a budget for much of the morning, but since the budget is dated July 18, funding now is legally backdated for the entire day.
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Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland.com, "Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signs state budget bill; nixes ‘price transparency’ measures," 18 July 2019
//However, this policy wasn’t backdated to include apps already on the site, which means that everything This Is Your Digital Life had already collected was still considered fair game.
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Rachel Paige, refinery29.com, "The Great Hack," 10 Apr. 2018
//After backdating the master agreements during the final push to get the attendance data in order, Rigney delivered the paperwork in suitcases to A3’s records collection office in Ontario, prosecutors say.
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The Washington Post, The Mercury News, "How does a $50 million charter scam work? Here’s what happened in California (before 11 people were indicted).," 17 June 2019
//For years, fantasists who peddle the fiction that Shakespeare didn’t write the plays attributed to him have failed to get Wikipedia to backdate doubts about his authorship.
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James Shapiro, The Atlantic, "Shakespeare Wrote Insightfully About Women. That Doesn’t Mean He Was One.," 8 June 2019
First Known Use of backdate
1822, in the meaning defined above
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