I. adjective
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a retrospective exhibition (= one that shows work from the past )
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a retrospective exhibition celebrating 150 years of photography
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■ NOUN
effect
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The Association of University Teachers settled for 4.2% this autumn, with retrospective effect from 1 April 1992.
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Companies come into existence by registration with retrospective effect to the date of the contract.
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Similarly, a rule will not normally have retrospective effect unless this is clearly provided for.
exhibition
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Noguchi did not get his first retrospective exhibition until he was in his sixties.
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There will also be a new retrospective exhibition of the work of the political cartoonist, Gerald Scarfe.
study
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Perpetrators are almost exclusively male, though a few women are reported, particularly in retrospective studies .
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There is ample evidence from case-histories that this might happen - and the retrospective study described above supports the idea.
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A retrospective study showed that amiodarone was associated with a better prognosis in patients with documented ventricular tachycardia on electrocardiographic monitoring.
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It was not possible, however, to obtain such data in this retrospective study .
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a retrospective look at the 1974 election
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But it was thirty-one years later and recent scholarship has questioned whether the anecdote might not have been a retrospective invention.
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But now we see that even the absence of law is no guarantee against the possibility of retrospective regulation.
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Every artist should be allowed to design the retrospective box set that will define a lifetime, as has Santana.
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It adds some retrospective poignancy to our story, I think, and possibly some connection to Emerson's universe.
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Perpetrators are almost exclusively male, though a few women are reported, particularly in retrospective studies.
II. noun
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The retrospective includes 10 of the 12 films written and directed by Sturges.
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He exhibited at Betty Parson's gallery and wo Whitney retrospectives of his work were held in 1963 and 1974.