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BACKDATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does backdate mean?
• BACKDATE (verb)
The verb BACKDATE has 1 sense:
1. make effective from an earlier date
Familiarity information: BACKDATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they backdate ... he / she / it backdates
Past simple: backdated
Past participle: backdated
-ing form: backdating
... he / she / it backdates Past simple: backdated
Past participle: backdated
-ing form: backdating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make effective from an earlier date
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Context example:
The increase in tax was backdated to January
Hypernyms (to "backdate" is one way to...):
effect (act so as to bring into existence)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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