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What does retroactively mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word retroactively? Here's what it means.

Adverb
  1. Done after the fact; applying to events that have previously transpired.
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The minister is paying FICA instead of SECA and the IRS could require that this be corrected retroactively.
Once a suspect is identified, people retroactively interpret incidents to support the new accusation.
Such patterns, circumscribed by human self-constitution in the natural and cultural context, are significant only retroactively.
The Company has elected to retroactively apply the fixed asset historical cost model for IFRS purposes on its transition date.
Even his later eminence couldn't turn him retroactively into a cult figure.
I am not persuaded that spousal support should be ordered retroactively to the date of separation as sought.

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