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backdate

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back⋅date

  [bak-deyt]
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–verb (used with object), -dat⋅ed, -dat⋅ing.
to date earlier than the actual date; predate; antedate: Backdate the letter so he'll think I wrote it last week.
Origin:
1945–50, Americanism; back 2 + date 1
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back·date   (bāk'dāt')   
tr.v.   back·dat·ed, back·dat·ing, back·dates
To mark or supply with a date that is earlier than the actual date: backdate a check.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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