| 释义 |
ˈback-date, backdate, v.
[back adv. 4.]
trans. To affix or assign a date earlier than the actual one to (a document, book, event, etc.); to render an enactment, agreement, etc., valid retroactively from a given date.
1946Sun (Baltimore) 26 Sept. 2/2 A stenographer..testified that..a War Assets official dictated the memorandum last April and ordered her to back-date it to December 18, 1945. 1952Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 6 Feb. 1/5 Backdating of tax returns is the major irregularity..found in the San Francisco internal revenue office. 1957Ann. Reg. 1956 4 A deadlock ensued on whether the award, if accepted, should be back-dated to the beginning of the lock-out. 1958Listener 19 June 1028/1 The poems cover the years 1918–58. One might back-date them in style perhaps by ten years. |