postdate

• post-date

post- +‎ date

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊstˌdeɪt/

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postdate (third-person singular simple present postdates, present participle postdating, simple past and past participle postdated)

1. (transitive) To occur after an event or time; to exist later on in time
   • 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 37:

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

2. (transitive) To assign an effective date to a document or action later than the actual date

   to postdate a contract, that is, to date it later than the time when it was in fact made

3. (transitive) To affix a date to after the event.

• (to assign a date later than the actual date): overdate; see also Thesaurus:overdate

• (antonym(s) of “to exist later on in time”): predate; see also Thesaurus:predate
• (antonym(s) of “to assign a date later than the actual date”): predate; see also Thesaurus:backdate

postdate (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) postdated; made or done after the date assigned.

postdate (plural postdates)

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

• adoptest, despotat, spot date

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• Homophones: postdatent, postdates

postdate

1. inflection of postdater:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative