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Retroactive   /rˌɛtroʊˈæktɪv/   Listen
Retroactive

adjective
1.
Descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on the effects of events or stimuli or process that occurred previously.
2.
Affecting things past.  Synonyms: ex post facto, retro.  "An ex-post-facto law" , "Retro pay"





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"Retroactive" Quotes from Famous Books



... been and is ready to give this case a fair and impartial hearing. And I have given my assurance that if any adjustment of wages is made by the Board, it will be made retroactive to April first. But the national officers of the United Mine Workers refused to participate in the hearing, when asked ...
— The Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt • Franklin Delano Roosevelt
... were passed with retroactive effect—truly one of the grossest abuses possible for a civilized Government. But perhaps the most startling case of all was that concerning the proclamation of the farm Witfontein. This farm had been ...
— The Transvaal from Within - A Private Record of Public Affairs • J. P. Fitzpatrick
... salaries of members from $1000 to $1500, an increase of fifty per cent, and is retroactive. It is necessary to decide whether the Commonwealth can well afford this additional tax and whether any public benefit would ...
— Have faith in Massachusetts; 2d ed. - A Collection of Speeches and Messages • Calvin Coolidge
... effect of such a gentle fantasy as his with some such emotion as one recalls a pleasant tale unexpectedly told when one feared a repetition of stale commonplaces, and I now feel a pang of retroactive self-reproach for not spending the whole evening after dinner in reading up the story of that most storied city where this Spanish castle received us. What better could I have done in the smoky warmth of our hearth-fire ...
— Familiar Spanish Travels • W. D. Howells
... Love has curious retroactive effects. As soon as Jean-Christophe discovered that he loved Minna, he discovered at the same time that he had always loved her. For three months they had been seeing each other almost every day without ever suspecting the existence of their love. But from the day when he did actually ...
— Jean-Christophe, Vol. I • Romain Rolland


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