Meaning & use
postdate
To mark a document, such as a check, with a date later than the date it was actually written.
See it in a sentence
She postdated the check so it could not be cashed until payday.
Banks may refuse to honor a check that has been postdated by several weeks.
A note on using this word
Postdate can also mean simply to come after something in time, as in 'the letter postdates the contract by a year.'
Words with a similar meaning
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Words with an opposite meaning
backdate
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