Usually means: Assign a date earlier than actual.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word backdate:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. backdate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. backdate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. backdate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. backdate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. backdate: Vocabulary.com
  6. backdate: Wordnik
  7. backdate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. backdate: Wiktionary
  9. backdate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. backdate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. backdate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. backdate: Dictionary.com
  13. backdate: Rhymezone
  14. backdate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. backdate: Free Dictionary
  16. backdate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. backdate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  18. backdate: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. backdate: Legal dictionary
  4. backdate: Financial dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. backdate: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See backdated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To give or assign a date to a document that is earlier than the current or true date.
noun:  An assigned date that is earlier than the current or true date.

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