Retroactive synonyms

rĕt'rō-ăk'tĭv

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child-support (related)
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post-grant (related)
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retro
Affecting things past; retroactive, ex post facto
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proactive (antonym)
Assuming an active, rather than passive, role in doing, accomplishing, etc.; taking the initiative
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extra-territorial (related)
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Retroactive Sentence Examples

  • The constitution prohibits special, local and retroactive legislation, legislation impairing the obligation of contracts, and legislation levying a poll tax for county or state purposes or a tax on state, municipal and public school bonds (amendment of 1905), and it limits the amount and specifies the character of public debts which the legislature may contract.

  • According to consolidation theory, retroactive interference should have a greater adverse effect of recently formed memories than older ones.

  • The United Nations began last year to try to quash Iraq 's surcharges by imposing a system of retroactive pricing on Iraqi oil.

  • The Law of 1945 was clearly, it was held, intended to have a retroactive effect in permitting the death sentence.

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