postdate

verb

post·​date ˌpōs(t)-ˈdāt 

ˈpōs(t)-ˌdāt

postdated; postdating; postdates

transitive verb

1

a

: to date with a date later than that of execution

postdate a check

b

: to assign (an event) to a date subsequent to that of actual occurrence

2

: to follow in time

Synonyms

• follow
• succeed
• supervene

Examples of postdate in a Sentence

We sent the company a postdated check for next month's payment.

the inscription at the base actually postdates the statue itself by a number of years

Recent Examples on the Web

Ranging in age from 150 to nearly 5,000 years, varying in length from 7 to 36 feet, many canoes postdate the arrival of Europeans. —Jacqueline Kehoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2024

Horn had exited the public eye in 2015 following a stroke that postdated a career spent creating a multifaceted oeuvre that seethed with energy. —News Desk, Artforum, 10 Sep. 2024

Imagine an English literature course that included no books written after 1600; a philosophy syllabus designed on the assumption that all philosophers after David Hume were second-rate; an archaeology professor who refused to teach anything postdating the Lower Paleolithic. —Peter Thonemann, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2024

Legislative leaders endorsed the reform and plan to vote next month to postdate the new rate to Jan. 1. —The Editorial Board, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2023

Though different in form, these two venerable objects share visual features, not only with each other but with images that long preceded and postdated them. —Holland Cotter, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023

Many of the choices predate his career, and very few of the tracks that postdate the ’60s seem directly influenced by his work. —Wesley Stace, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022

Both of them postdate a report in the New York Times in April 2020 that Chris Cuomo had provided advice to Andrew Cuomo’s staff. —Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2022

Coralie Mills of Dendrochronicle found that the samples of timbers retrieved from the riverbed were native oak, a wood rarely found at Scottish sites that postdate 1450. —Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Oct. 2020

Word History

First Known Use

1624, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Rhymes for postdate

• abate
• airfreight
• await
• baseplate
• berate
• birthdate
• birthrate
• bookplate
• borate
• breastplate
• bromate
• casemate

Kids Definition

postdate

verb

post·​date (ˈ)pōs(t)-ˈdāt 

1

: to assign a date to that is later than the actual or current date

postdate a check

2

: to follow in time