postdating

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English

Verb

postdating

  1. present participle and gerund of postdate

Noun

postdating (plural postdatings)

  1. (lexicography) A later citation of a lexical item.
    The new edition of the dictionary contains several postdatings.
    • 2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 256:
      Indeed, for 10 of these terms, the latest known record was their inclusion in Hobson-Jobson, and without any published postdatings this may have suggested that those terms were obsolescent at the end of the nineteenth century.