0 (of a law or decision) in a way that has effect from a date before it was approved: --
1 with effect from a date in the past before a law, decision, etc. was approved: --
The management retroactively approved some of those expenditures.
A student can apply after the fact, and we'll process it retroactively.
The legislation applies retroactively to January 1.
Giving in to blackmail by the multinationals and reimbursing customs duties retroactively is an aberration.
In such cases the tribunal award would have the effect retroactively to disqualify the employee for receipt of benefit.
I am not sure whether what is being proposed would work retroactively in this case.
That is bad, but it is as bad to validate retroactively an action that was invalid.
I do not, therefore, ask for that information to be published retroactively.
These sanctions take the form of withholding liquidation and subjecting imports to a contingent liability of 100 % duties to be imposed retroactively.
It conflicts with established economic and legal principles retroactively to impose upon a manufacturer financial liability for its product.
But to say that your former self is made better off retroactively by your later self's endorsement would take away what we find so tragic about your earlier life.
