postdate

Plural: postdates

Verb

Verb Forms: postdated, postdating, postdates

• To assign a date later than the actual current date.
• be later in time
• establish something as being later relative to something else
• To occur after an event or time; to exist later on in time.
• To assign an effective date to a document or action later than the actual date.
• To affix a date to after the event.

Adj

• Postdated; made or done after the date assigned.

Noun

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

Examples

• no postdated checks [sign in a retail store]
• She tried to POSTDATE her move to avoid an early penalty, a clever but futile strategy.
• to postdate a contract, that is, to date it later than the time when it was in fact made

Synonyms

follow, overdate

Antonyms

predate, backdate

Anagrams of postdate