up-to-date
[uhp-tuh-deyt]
- (of persons, buildings, etc.) keeping up with the times, as in outlook, information, ideas, appearance, or style.
- in accordance with the latest or newest ideas, standards, techniques, styles, etc.; modern.
- extending to the present time; current; including the latest information or facts: an up-to-date report.
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Origin of up-to-date
First recorded in 1865–70
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Related Words
timely, modern, contemporary, state-of-the-art, up-to-the-minute, advanced, abreast, avant-garde, current, dashing, expedient, fashionable, fitting, happening, hot, modernistic, modish, new, newfangled, nowExamples from the Web for up-to-date
Contemporary Examples
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.
I advised him that the American Petroleum Institute publishes the most up-to-date tax tables quarterly.
Historical Examples
But I thought she was the most up-to-date yacht in the world!
It Happened in EgyptC. N. Williamson
"You will find this up-to-date in every respect," he was saying.
Frank Roscoe's SecretAllen Chapman
Here, indeed, is an up-to-date hermit, not an antique troglodyte.
The Book of KhalidAmeen Rihani
"All you need is a little push and up-to-date methods, Cap'n," he said.
Cap'n Dan's DaughterJoseph C. Lincoln
We're in Scarford now, and Scarford's a progressive, up-to-date place.
Cap'n Dan's DaughterJoseph C. Lincoln
up-to-date
- modern, current, or fashionablean up-to-date magazine
- (predicative)the magazine is up to date
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Word Origin and History for up-to-date
adj.
1868, "right to the present time," from phrase up to date, probably originally from bookkeeping. Meaning "having the latest facts" is recorded from 1889; that of "having current styles and tastes" is from 1891.
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