backdate

[ US /ˈbækˌdeɪt/ ]
[ UK /bˈækde‍ɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. make effective from an earlier date
    The increase in tax was backdated to January
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How To Use backdate In A Sentence

  • He was said to have deliberately falsified a document to increase his salary and backdate his pension.
  • Unfortunately, nobody noticed that the term of years referred to in Mrs Tuttle's leases had been backdated.
  • These sources also tell FITS that S.C. Ethics Commission Attorney Cathy Hazelwood may have permitted Miles to "backdate" one of his forms, or affix a prior date so as to make it appear that the document had been filed in a timely fashion. FITSNews
  • South Carolina's State Ethics Commission has assessed hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of late fees - much of it to black candidates in low income areas of the state - but it may have let a white state agency head "backdate" his paperwork in order to avoid having to pay these same charges. FITSNews
  • Anyone who has overpaid tax will be able to backdate their claim to last April.
  • Benefits are usually offered after a six-month probationary period and backdated to the start of employment.
  • They are also angry because the increase was only backdated to July this year instead of January.
  • I'm getting no 'backdated' error messages the way I did when I first set it up. Linkspam!
  • Management stuck to its 4 percent offer and insisted that any increase would not be backdated to the 1 April anniversary date, effectively reducing the offer to only 2 percent.
  • The increase was to be backdated to June 1 and would rise to 75 percent by the last quarter of 1991.
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