backdate

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Verb

backdate (backdates, present participle backdating; past and past participle backdated)

1. To give or assign a date to a document that is earlier than the current or true date.

   Synonyms: antedate, Thesaurus:backdate

Noun

backdate (plural backdates)

1. An assigned date that is earlier than the current or true date.
   • 2000, Jack Stewart, Hurricane (page 50)

     The backdates on the clearance forms made the little man's papers worthless […]

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