postdating
postdating noun: a later citation of a lexical item. Also the present participle and gerund of postdate.
Noun
postdating (plural postdatings)
- A later citation of a lexical item.
- The new edition of the dictionary contains several postdatings.
- Indeed, for 10 of these terms, the latest known record was their inclusion in Hobson-Jobson, and without any published postdatings this may have suggested that those terms were obsolescent at the end of the nineteenth century.2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 256
Also used as
postdating is also the present participle and gerund of postdate.
Forms of postdating
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Questions about postdating
- What does postdating mean?
- Postdating means a later citation of a lexical item.
- What part of speech is postdating?
- Postdating is a noun.
- What is the plural of postdating?
- The plural of postdating is postdatings.
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