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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backdate.

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Examples

  • When my teen reverie for the likes of Margaret Thatcher and Steve Jobs takes over, Slim chimes in, "Make sure you mention that he is a control freak who backdates options and doesn't tell shareholders he has a terminal illness."

    Molly Baker: Steve Jobs: Oh Captain (Of Industry) My Captain! 2010

  • Answer: Costco automatically backdates your membership to renew on the date it expired, not on the actual date you renewed.

    Costco's renewal rip-off 2009

  • Answer: Costco automatically backdates your membership to renew on the date it expired, not on the actual date you renewed.

    Costco's renewal rip-off 2009

  • It deliberately provides a 'get out of jail free card' to the administration's top torture officials, and backdates that card nine years.

    Archive 2006-09-01 Ellen Beth Gill 2006

  • It deliberately provides a 'get out of jail free card' to the administration's top torture officials, and backdates that card nine years.

    When is Compromise Just Capitulation? Ellen Beth Gill 2006

  • It deliberately provides a 'get out of jail free card' to the administration's top torture officials, and backdates that card nine years.

    September 2006 Ellen Beth Gill 2006

  • Suppose a company fully discloses, but still backdates?

    Archive 2006-07-01 Robert Reich 2006

  • If a company backdates an option to a day when the stock price hit a low point, the option automatically has value, and companies must account for it as an expense.

    Backdating's New Blacklist 2006

  • April 4, 2010 - Having learned a lot from all unbelievable cruel deeds done to us in the last 50 years of Sudan's Independence and count back to historical backdates in those dark hours of colonial periods when South and other areas inhabited by black Africans were still under Closed District Ordinance administration to Juba 1947 two days conference where the South forged marriage of convenience with the North.

    Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan 2010

  • April 4, 2010 - Having learned a lot from all unbelievable cruel deeds done to us in the last 50 years of Sudan's Independence and count back to historical backdates in those dark hours of colonial periods when South and other areas inhabited by black Africans were still under Closed District Ordinance administration to Juba 1947 two days conference where the South forged marriage of convenience with the North.

    Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan 2010

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