What does postdating mean?
Postdating means (lexicography) A later citation of a lexical item..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(lexicography) A later citation of a lexical item..
The new edition of the dictionary contains several postdatings.
Indeed, for 10 of these terms, the latest known record was their inclusion in Hobson-Jobson, and without any published postdatings this may have suggested that those terms were obsolescent at the end of the nineteenth century.
Use postdating when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Postdating means (lexicography) A later citation of a lexical item..
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The new edition of the dictionary contains several postdatings.
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