RETROACTIVE


Meaning of RETROACTIVE in English

adjective

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And there are few precedents for the sort of retroactive legislation the banks want.

At least the government can answer those who say its attitude to retroactive legislation is inconsistent.

Even if it stops short of this extreme, retroactive cost justification is largely ineffective.

Many suspect that retroactive tax cuts could be ditched.

Some schemes use retroactive notation in order to signal new facets.

The result seems imposed and artificial, a seemingly retroactive attempt to fit unwilling text to some overarching high-concept frame.

There's an immediate freeze on all anti-USSR activities, retroactive to 2400 hours last night.

This means that the payment may have been for multiple months, which indicates there may have been a retroactive salary payment.

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