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retroactively
[ re-troh-ak-tiv-lee ]
adverb
- in a way that includes or refers to events that happened before the relevant rule, decision, or other measure came into effect:
One other state has just passed a Racial Justice Act, but it doesn’t allow any of the inmates now on death row to file claims retroactively.
Other 51Թ Forms
- ԴDz····پ· adverb
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of retroactively1
Example Sentences
Since your husband died the month that the two provisions stopped applying, the amount Social Security may owe him retroactively is likely small, if anything.
The ordinance also applies retroactively, barring renovation-based evictions that were pending before the vote took place.
"Voters may not be retroactively disenfranchised based upon technical defects in their voter registration," the brief states.
But I think a lot of that is what we’ve decided retroactively.
“No statute allows NIH to unilaterally alter all current grants retroactively,” the filing alleges.
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