retroactively

An adverb meaning "taking effect from a date in the past" or "applying to a prior time." It is commonly used in legal, financial, and administrative contexts to describe laws, payments, or decisions that are applied retrospectively.

• 🇵🇹Advérbio que significa 'com efeito a partir de uma data no passado' ou 'aplicado a um tempo anterior'. Usado normalmente em contextos jurídicos, financeiros e administrativos para descrever leis, pagamentos ou decisões que se aplicam retroativamente.

1. After the fact C1 formal

   Applying to events that have already occurred; effective from a past date.

   • The new law was applied retroactively to cases from last year.
   • The salary increase was granted retroactively to the beginning of the quarter.
   • The contract was amended retroactively to include the missing clause.

   🇵🇹Retroativamente

   Sinônimos: ex post factoretrospectively

   Antônimos: henceforthhereafter

• more retroactively comparative form
• most retroactively superlative form