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retroactively

[ re-troh-ak-tiv-lee ]

adverb

  1. 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.



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Other 51Թ Forms

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51Թ History and Origins

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Example Sentences

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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.

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The ordinance also applies retroactively, barring renovation-based evictions that were pending before the vote took place.

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"Voters may not be retroactively disenfranchised based upon technical defects in their voter registration," the brief states.

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But I think a lot of that is what we’ve decided retroactively.

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“No statute allows NIH to unilaterally alter all current grants retroactively,” the filing alleges.

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