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up-to-date
[ uhp-tuh-deyt ]
adjective
- in accordance with or reflecting the latest or newest ideas, standards, techniques, styles, etc.; modern:
Our professors are all practicing scientists and teach lectures in the context of up-to-date methodology.
- extending to the present time; including the latest information or facts; current:
Your lender can provide an up-to-date report on the amount you owe on your home loan.
- (of people) keeping up with the times, as in outlook, information, ideas, appearance, or style.
adverb
- in accordance with or abreast of the latest or newest ideas, standards, styles, etc.:
If you're returning to the workforce after an extended absence, show how you've kept up-to-date with changes in your industry.
- right up to the present time; so as to include the latest information or facts:
The goal was to bring us up to date on many types of treatments that have some clinical benefit to patients.
up-to-date
adjective
- modern, current, or fashionable
an up-to-date magazine
- ( predicative )
the magazine is up to date
Derived Forms
- ˈup-to-ˈdateness, noun
- ˈup-to-ˈdately, adverb
Other Words From
- up-to-date·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of up-to-date1
Idioms and Phrases
see bring up to date .Example Sentences
But it draws on lessons learned from the last 40 years, and of course includes up-to-date technology.
Certainly I can imagine ways of giving this jungle hero some up-to-date progressive attitudes.
At one point, he asked reporters in the room to provide him with up-to-date numbers on voting percentages.
Which is why we need the most up-to-date science—and for government entities to refute “abortion-inducing” misnomers.
Often reporting from Tahrir Square, Zeinobia is viewed as a reliable and up-to-date source for the latest news out of Cairo.
If a kite would give motive power to a man skating, why not use a more up-to-date air-power scheme on the ice?
Despite its antiquity, it is thoroughly up-to-date and was one of the most comfortable inns that we found anywhere.
They knew absolutely nothing of the diamond hitch, which every up-to-date packer uses, and Phil would tolerate no other.
Perhaps the most up-to-date contribution to civilisation that we owe to the shepherds is the ancient and royal game of golf.
These people exert no influence with the practical up-to-date element of the profession and are doing you as they do others.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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