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UP TO DATE

 Dictionary entry overview: What does up to date mean? 

UP TO DATE (adjective)
  The adjective UP TO DATE has 2 senses:

1. in accord with the most fashionable ideas or styleplay

2. reflecting the latest information or changesplay

  Familiarity information: UP TO DATE used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UP TO DATE (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

In accord with the most fashionable ideas or style

Synonyms:

cutting-edge; up-to-date; up to date; with-it

Context example:

a with-it boutique

Similar:

fashionable; stylish (being or in accordance with current social fashions)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Reflecting the latest information or changes

Synonyms:

up-to-date; up to date

Context example:

an up-to-date issue of the magazine

Similar:

current (occurring in or belonging to the present time)


 Context examples 


Some of the information is reliable and up to date; some is not.

(Evaluating Health Information, NIH: National Library of Medicine)

Few people are as up to date on as wide a variety of topics as you, dear Gemini.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I would spend the day in writing a third, which would bring my experiences absolutely up to date.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

However, I thought the matter over, and came to the conclusion that the best thing I could do would be to post them in affairs right up to date.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It is a coolie disease from Sumatra—a thing that the Dutch know more about than we, though they have made little of it up to date.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ask IT to be sure all software is up to date, with bugs fixed and backups performed.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

We could not—or at least we had not succeeded up to date in making organic life in our laboratories out of inorganic materials.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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