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retroactive

[re-troh-ak-tiv] / ˌrɛ troʊˈæk tɪv /


ADJECTIVE
retrospective
Synonyms


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Retroactive benefits also will be paid, the statement said.

From Washington Times • Jul. 28, 2020

Retroactive wage increases are "something that should be on the table," de Blasio told Reuters in an interview last week.

From Reuters • Sep. 13, 2013

Retroactive testing by a national laboratory pegged the earliest confirmed case of the virus in the United States around April 15 at a farm in Ohio.

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2013

Nor is she any great feminist, despite her outspokenness about "girl power," which you can read about in "Nicki Minaj's Retroactive Feminism" by Julianne Escobedo Shepherd for the website AlterNet.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 9, 2012

Mr. Trollop, you are pledged to support the Indigent Congressmen's Retroactive Appropriation which is to come up, either in this or the next session.

From The Gilded Age, Part 5. by Warner, Charles Dudley




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