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Retroactive

//ˌɹɛ.tɹoʊˈæk.tɪv// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Extending in scope, effect, application or influence to a prior time or to prior conditions not-comparable

    "Rather, he hoped there was some legal trickeration he could deploy to get a retroactive water right filed and end-run the opposition."

Adjective
  1. 1
    affecting things past wordnet
  2. 2
    descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on the effects of events or stimuli or process that occurred previously wordnet

Etymology

First attested in 1610. From French rétroactif, equivalent to retro- + active.

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