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# postdate

«postdate» in Mova's school dictionary: **To write a date on a cheque or document that is later…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (postdate, postdates, postdated, postdating)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To write a date on a cheque or document that is later than the day you write it, so it only counts from that later day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postdate/#m1)

2) (formal) To happen or exist after something else: «These houses postdate the castle.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postdate/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In money and grown-up life a postdated cheque cannot be cashed until its date. In history and science (dating rocks or objects) it means «come after». It is the opposite of «predate». Phrases: «postdate a cheque», «a postdated cheque», «postdate the war».

### examples

- Dad postdated the cheque to the first of next month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postdate/#x1)
- The bank will not pay a postdated cheque before its date. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postdate/#x2)
- The town's library postdates the church by two hundred years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postdate/#x3)
- These cave paintings postdate the oldest ones found in Spain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postdate/#x4)
- If something postdates another thing, it came later. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postdate/#x5)
- The coins in the hoard postdate the Roman invasion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postdate/#x6)

### note

Opposite: predate (to come before; also to date earlier). Sometimes spelled «post-date». Traps: postdate has nothing to do with the post (mail); «post» here is Latin for «after». On a timeline, the thing that postdates sits further to the right (later).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «postdate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postdate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.