verb [VN]
1 to write a date on a cheque or other document that is earlier then the actual date
comparePOST-DATE
2 (BrE) to make sth, especially a payment, take effect from an earlier date:
Postal workers are getting a 5.2% pay rise, backdated to February.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for backdate is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does backdate appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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