bring up to date

Idioms  

1. Convey information up to the present; also, make one aware of or conform to new ideas, improvements, or styles. For example, Bring me up to date on the test results, or We've been bringing Grandma up to date with a little makeup and some new clothes. The term up to date comes from bookkeeping, where it signifies account entries to the present time. [Late 1800s]

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Example Sentences

The 2019 Conservative party manifesto promised to bring up to date "analogue laws" for the digital age.

From BBC

Glenn Ligon, Martin Puryear, Carrie Mae Weems and other contemporary artists will bring up to date what promises to be an enlightening, kaleidoscopic reflection of black American history and experience.

From New York Times

But this is not just an opportunity to bring up to date what we already have.

From The Guardian

The Paycheck Fairness Act would bring up to date the Equal Pay Act, which was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson nearly 50 years ago.

From Washington Post

Those who are familiar with the vast amount of ethnological literature published since the close of last century will realize that to revise and bring up to date a work whose range in space and time covers the whole world from prehistoric ages down to the present day, is a task impossible of accomplishment within the compass of a single volume.

From Project Gutenberg

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