ex postadj.
/ɛks ˈpəʊst/ Economics.
Based on or determined by actual results, rather than expectations; calculated retrospectively. Also transferred, and occasionally as adv. opposed to ex ante adj. (and adv.)
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > [adjective] > based on actual results or calculation
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ex post1937
society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > [adverb] > in accounting processes
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1937 Econ. Jrnl. 47 55 This analysis of income and capital values with the aid of ‘ex-post’ and ‘ex-ante’ concepts is independent of the timeless equilibrium construction.
1958 W. Stark Sociol. of Knowl. vi. 256 It is the tragedy of all choice in freedom, that the freedom vanishes when the choice is taken... [This] means..that what is in fact only multivocally determined ex ante may appear univocally determined ex post.
1970 C. Furtado in I. L. Horowitz Masses in Lat. Amer. ii. 43 An increase of the ex-post rate of savings.
1976 K. Joseph Monetarism is not Enough 16 Cutting public expenditure has come to mean..‘cutting increased expenditure’... When you study the expenditure figures ex post, you will see that for yourselves.
1986 Oxf. Econ. Papers XXXVIII. ii. 237 In contrast to specific factors, mobile factors can take advantage of ex-post adjustment flexibility in adapting to terms of trade variability.
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