postdate — Dizionario inglese

Verbo

1. To occur after an event or time; to exist later on in time.

   Uso

   • transitivo

   Esempi

   Because these prophecies of Isaiah postdate the fall of Babylon (539 B.C.E), they probably refer to that event.

   Altri esempi (1)

   For example, the FAQ page comments that ‘the term “incel” is an abbreviated version and sniglonym of the term “involuntary celibacy,” whose usage reaches back at least to the 18th century.”’ The term ‘sniglonym’ is itself an example of deploying verbose language. The word refers to a term whose date of coinage postdates the pre-existing concept or object it defines.

2. To assign an effective date to a document or action later than the actual date.

   Uso

   • transitivo

   Esempi

   no postdated checks [sign in a retail store]

   to postdate a contract, that is, to date it later than the time when it was in fact made

3. To affix a date to after the event.

   Uso

   • transitivo

Aggettivo

1. Postdated; made or done after the date assigned.

   Uso

   • not-comparable
   • obsoleto

Sostantivo

1. A date on a document later than the real date on which it was written.

Verbo

1. be later in time

   Sinonimi

   follow

   Contrari

   predate

   Termini più generali

   followcome after

   Esempi

   Tuesday always follows Monday

2. establish something as being later relative to something else

   Contrari

   predate

   Termini più generali

   chronologizechronologise