0 past simple and past participle of postdate
1 to happen or exist after something:
Most manuscripts postdate the stories that have circulated by word of mouth for centuries.
2 to write a date on a document, such as a cheque or letter, that is later than the date on which you are writing it, usually to get some advantage:
Rather, haematite precipitation postdated the dolomite and took advantage of the dolomite crystal fabric.
The arrangement here seems based on the notion that script and scripture are inextricably linked and that the sacred texts necessarily postdated the invention of writing.
This was a classic postdated cheque drawn on somebody else's bank account.
First, it must not be a postdated cheque.
At the opening of the talks we are likely to be issued with a postdated cheque, which we fully expect to be dishonoured.
The tax can now be paid in half-yearly payments, not ante-dated payments but postdated payments.
What this really amounts to is that we are paying these people with a postdated cheque, and a cheque which is dated very far ahead indeed.
That announcement postdated the company's refinancing.
