backdate
Americanverb (used with object)
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backdates,
present (3rd person singular)
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backdated,
past participle, past
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backdating
present participle
verb
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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backdatesimple
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backdatessimple
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have backdatedperfect
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has backdatedperfect
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am backdatingprogressive
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are backdatingprogressive
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is backdatingprogressive
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have been backdatingperfect progressive
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has been backdatingperfect progressive
Past
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backdatedsimple
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had backdatedperfect
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was backdatingprogressive
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were backdatingprogressive
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had been backdatingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of backdate
Example Sentences
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The state, meanwhile, wants to backdate residence to Jan. 1.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 5, 2026
The commission has also accused Lee of helping Englander backdate checks to repay the businessman who comped the hotel rooms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2025
They accepted the deal in September after the company agreed to backdate the increase by an extra month.
From Reuters ● Dec. 23, 2022
Officials aim to backdate the start to Feb. 1; state governors are still pressing the federal government to find a way to make it valid for January too.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
V. misdate, antedate, postdate, backdate, overdate†; anticipate; take no note of time, lose track of time; anachronize†.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
Payments can only be backdated for three months, meaning some families could be missing out on hundreds of pounds in the fog of new parenthood.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
EagleBank backdated the client’s loan payments to make it appear as though they were on time, the settlement says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
A five-year ban on holding public office has been reduced and backdated to March 2025, and the court said it now considered the penalty had already been served.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
The 61-year-old's sentence was backdated to 25 May, when he was remanded in custody after pleading guilty.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
It felt like I was getting backdated karma for being a good person.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
As had been reported in The Wall Street Journal, many well-timed option awards weren’t the product of luck, but of a widespread practice known as backdating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
By early 2015, months before Wired published its article, he was locked in disputes with the Australian tax office, which accused him of backdating documents and conducting “sham transactions,” court records show.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2024
In 1936, he opened the Jules Maes Saloon at 5919 Airport Way S., slyly backdating its founding to 1888.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2023
Karatz, the former CEO of KB Home, was convicted in 2010 of lying about stock-option backdating and later sentenced to house arrest at his Bel-Air mansion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2023
Government sources said there would be no movement on this year's pay award but ministers are considering backdating the 2023-24 rise to January.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2023
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