Postdate

Quick meaning: Postdate is a verb meaning (transitive) To occur after an event or time; to exist later on in time.

Meaning

(transitive) To occur after an event or time; to exist later on in time.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To assign an effective date to a document or action later than the actual date.
2. (transitive) To affix a date to after the event.
3. A date on a document later than the real date on which it was written.
4. (obsolete) Postdated; made or done after the date assigned.

Example Sentences

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

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

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.

Word Forms

• postdates
• postdating
• postdated
• post-date

Synonyms for postdate

Depending on context, synonyms include overdate, follow.

Antonyms for postdate

Common opposites include predate, precede, antedate, forego, antecede, foredate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include follow, post-date, postexist, postcede, postpose, predate.

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