postdates

Occurs more recently

Postdates means to assign a date later than the actual one.

A postdated check bears a future date, making it invalid until then: She postdated the check to Friday so funds would clear.

Postdates also means to occur or exist later than something else: The manuscript postdates the author's death by several years.

The opposite is antedates.

temporal

subsequent

Occurring after something else

thereafter · following · succeeding · posterior · sequential · consecutive · ulterior · downstream · follow-up · sequel

check

backdating

Assigning earlier date falsely

banking · financial · deferred · delayed · voided · cleared · deposited · cashed · honored · dishonored

Opposites
temporal sequence

postdatespredates

Occurs earlier than

antedates · precedes · comes before · preexists · predating

Phrases
Family

postdate, postdating, postdated

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