postdate
Definition
- Verb:
- To write a date on a document that is later than the actual date: To assign a future date to a check, letter, or other document.
- To occur or exist at a later time than something else; to follow in time: To be subsequent to another event or point in time.
Usage
- The primary use of postdate is for assigning a future date to a financial instrument, like a check, to delay its validity.
- When used in a general temporal sense, postdate means to come after in chronological order. It is a formal or academic term.
Examples
- Verb (Assigning a future date):
- I will postdate this check to the first of next month so it isn't cashed early.
- It is illegal to postdate certain official documents.
- Verb (Occurring later in time):
- The discovery of penicillin postdates the First World War.
- Many of these architectural features postdate the original construction of the building by several centuries.
Advanced Usage
- In historical or academic writing: Used to establish chronological relationships between events, artifacts, or ideas.
- This manuscript is postdated by the scribe's signature, which we know was added in 1520.
Variants and Related Words
- Postdated (adj.): Describing a document with a future date written on it.
- The bank will not accept a postdated check.
- Antedate (verb): The direct opposite, meaning to precede in time or to assign an earlier date.
Synonyms
- Follow: To come after in time or order.
- Succeed: To come after in a sequence.
- Assign a future date: (For the document-related meaning).
Antonyms
- Predate: To exist or occur at an earlier time than.
- Antedate: To precede in time; to date before the true date.
Verb
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establish something as being later relative to something else
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be later in time
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Tuesday always follows Monday
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