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Postdating

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A later citation of a lexical item.

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Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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