backdate
IPA: bˈækdeɪt
noun
- An assigned date that is earlier than the current or true date.
verb
- To give or assign a date to a document that is earlier than the current or true date.
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Examples of "backdate" in Sentences
- If companies backdate options without properly disclosing and accounting for the move, it can cause profits to be overstated.
- If Bay is not ready to start the season, the Mets can backdate his DL stint to March 25, meaning he would be eligible to return April 9 against Washington.
- By asking to "backdate" gains more than a year in the past, the lawsuit said, Mr. Picower and others at his firm "knew or should have known that they were participating in fraudulent activity."
- By asking to "backdate" gains more than a year in the past, the lawsuit says, Mr. Picower and others at his firm "knew or should have known that they were participating in fraudulent activity."
- These sources also tell FITS that S.C. Ethics Commission Attorney Cathy Hazelwood may have permitted Miles to "backdate" one of his forms, or affix a prior date so as to make it appear that the document had been filed in a timely fashion.
- Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn had alleged that Comverse Chief Executive Jacob "Kobi" Alexander and others engaged in a scheme to backdate millions of stock options and to secretly award backdated options to favored employees through a "slush fund."
- The backdating companies broke this rule: they reported how many options they were issuing, but conveniently omitted the fact that they had been backdated … The bigger reason for choosing to backdate is to get around some bothersome accounting regulations.
- South Carolina's State Ethics Commission has assessed hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of late fees - much of it to black candidates in low income areas of the state - but it may have let a white state agency head "backdate" his paperwork in order to avoid having to pay these same charges.
- Late last week, in an interview with the Florida attorney general, a former senior paralegal in Stern's firm described a boiler-room atmosphere in which employees were pressured to forge signatures, backdate documents, swap Social Security numbers, inflate billings and pass around notary stamps as if they were salt.
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