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retroactive

/re-troh-ak-tiv/US // ˌrɛ troʊˈæk tɪv //UK // (ˌrɛtrəʊˈæktɪv) //

追溯性,追溯性的,追溯,追补

Related Words

remembering记住,记忆,铭记,记得attendant服务员,侍者,服务人员,随从posterior后方,后部,后期,后面的postmortem尸检,验尸,尸体解剖,检讨retrospective回顾性的,回顾性,回顾,追溯subsequent随后,随后的,嗣后,后续sequent顺序,续集,序列,顺序排列post factum事后,事后总结,事后声明,事后报告succeeding成功的,继任的,继任,继承backward向后,向后的,向后退,向后移动reviewing审查,检讨,复审,回顾

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : operative with respect to past occurrences, as a statute; retrospective: a retroactive law.
    • : pertaining to a pay raise effective as of a past date.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inex post facto
Synonyms
attendant服务员,侍者,服务人员,随从done afterward完成后,事后完成,完事后,已完成post factum事后,事后总结,事后声明,事后报告posterior后方,后部,后期,后面的postmortem尸检,验尸,尸体解剖,检讨retrospective回顾性的,回顾性,回顾,追溯sequent顺序,续集,序列,顺序排列subsequent随后,随后的,嗣后,后续succeeding成功的,继任的,继任,继承
as inretrospective
Synonyms
remembering记住,记忆,铭记,记得backward向后,向后的,向后退,向后移动reviewing审查,检讨,复审,回顾

Examples

  • The House has passed two bills allowing the workers a presumption that their illness from the coronavirus was work-related if they dealt directly with infected people, and made the benefit retroactive to the beginning of the pandemic last March.

  • Such changes rarely happen quickly, but changes to tax law have sometimes been retroactive to the beginning of the year in which they’re enacted.

  • One significant outstanding question facing lawmakers is whether the unemployment benefits will be made retroactive to cover prior months when jobless benefits were not being paid.

  • When questioning Bélanger, he wondered how the requirement for a unanimous conviction must be retroactive, when the court’s decision about the need for a jury trial in some cases was not.

  • His problem with Maloney’s proposal is that it’s not retroactive, that it doesn’t force insurers to pay out for this pandemic.

  • For a pair such as Viola and Perov, who have co-created work for decades, there is also precedent for retroactive co-authorship.

  • Lavalle and his three pals allegedly pocketed a cut of the retroactive lump sum ofas much as $100,000 that each claimant received.

  • What this may do is reduce the retroactive awards that folks get when they finally manage to get their disability claim approved.

  • The corroboration that apparently led him to put faith in Ben-Menashe's testimony was retroactive.

  • Despite his red-hot debate showings—and a retroactive win in Iowa—Senator Sweatervest was basically a nonfactor in Florida.

  • An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

  • Therefore, said they, there was no question for them to consider, their powers not being retroactive.

  • The matter is so generally recognised that it has a sort of retroactive effect upon the historical ideas of the masses.

  • The claim that humanity is born saddled with this retroactive obligation requires more convincing proof than has yet been offered.

  • More than once laws were passed with retroactive effect—truly one of the grossest abuses possible for a civilized Government.

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