postdate

Thân thiện

The check was postdated to avoid early cashing.

Definition

1. 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.

Học thuật

Verb

1. establish something as being later relative to something else
2. be later in time
   • Tuesday always follows Monday

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