单词 | backdated |
释义 | backdatedadj. 1. That has been given an earlier date. (a) (Of a document, record, etc.) assigned to or bearing a date that is earlier than the actual date of issue; (b) (of an agreement, contract, etc.) retrospectively valid. Cf. backdate v., post-dated adj. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [adjective] > assigned to a date > assigned to a wrong or different date antedated1573 post-dateda1631 anachronical1731 misdated1743 anachronic1754 foretimed1832 backdated1858 1858 Morning Chron. 31 Dec. 7/5 A back-dated bill of £225. 1895 N.Z. Parl. Deb. 91 24/1 A back-dated increase, which, approved on the 29th September, 1890, was dated back to take effect as from the 1st April. 1919 Rep. Comm. Nat. Health Insurance in Parl. Papers XXVI. 319 The regular weekly [medical] certificates were not issued, and Dr. X. quite properly did not issue back-dated certificates. 1986 Ann. Reg. 1985 9 The NUM and NCB agreed on a backdated wage settlement. 1996 Big Issue 2 Dec. 5/3 People with disabilities..will find it harder to get back-dated benefits to which they are entitled. 2009 D. Esiekpe Union Manifesto 110 Also procured were an assortment of other fake documents..[including] a back-dated Insurance certificate. 2. Old, out of date, outdated. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > old-fashioned or antiquated moth-frettenOE antiquate?a1425 antique?1532 rusty1549 moth-eaten1551 musty1575 worm-eatenc1575 overyear1584 out of date1589 old-fashioned1592 out of date1592 worm-eat1597 old-fashion1599 ancient1601 outdated1616 out-of-fashion1623 over-aged1623 superannuateda1634 thorough-old1639 overdateda1641 trunk-hosea1643 antiquitated1645 antiquated1654 out-of-fashioned1671 unmodern1731 of the old school1749 auld-farrant1750 old-fangled1764 fossila1770 fogram1772 passé1775 unmodernized1775 oxidated1791 moss-covered1792 square-toeda1797 old-fashionable1807 pigtail1817 behind the times1826 slow1827 fossilized1828 rococo1836 antiquish1838 old-timey1850 out of season1850 moss-grown1851 old style1858 antiqued1859 pigtaily1859 prehistoric1859 backdated1862 played1864 fossiled1866 bygone1869 mossy-backed1870 old-worldly1878 past-time1889 outmoded1896 dated1900 brontosaurian1909 antiquey1926 horse-and-buggy1926 vintage1928 Neolithic1934 time-warped1938 demoded1941 steam age1941 hairy1946 old school1946 rinky-dink1946 time warp1954 Palaeolithic1957 retardataire1958 throwback1968 wally1969 antwacky1975 1862 Solicitors' Jrnl. & Reporter 8 Nov. 9/2 Several of the stationers professedly keep back-dated stamps in stock, and make a usurious profit on their sale. 1943 Billboard 18 Sept. 51/3 The play is..too much like reading lines out of a back-dated issue of College Humor. 1969 N. Cohn Pop from Beginning ii. 21 Instead of a space-age rocker,..he [sc. Bill Haley] turned out to be a back-dated vaudeville act. 1982 S. Richardson Temptations 38 I waited downstairs reading back-dated magazines... Did people steal the current issues? 2004 B. Dylan Chronicles I. v. 247 A lot of folks might have thought of Woody's songs as backdated, but not me. I felt they were totally in the moment. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1858 |
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