How to Use retroactive in a Sentence

retroactive

adjective
Definition of retroactivenext
Synonyms for retroactivenext
  • They all received a retroactive pay raise.
  • The new tax will be retroactive to January 1.
  • The raises, if approved, would be retroactive to the start of the school year.
    — Leslie Postal, orlandosentinel.com, 16 Oct. 2020
  • The approval of these salary changes are retroactive to Jan. 11.
    — Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The law is not retroactive to those already on death row.
    — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 20 May 2021
  • The new law is retroactive to Jan. 20, the day Biden was sworn in as president.
    — Keith Ridler, Star Tribune, 11 May 2021
  • He will be placed on the 10-day IL, retroactive to Monday.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The ban is retroactive and will end next year, but the 2022 gold medal will now go to the USA, which placed second.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The state says those checks will be retroactive to Aug. 1, but may only last a few weeks.
    — Laura Hancock, cleveland, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Crawford will miss at least10 days on the IL; the move was retroactive to Sunday.
    — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 May 2023
  • The law is not retroactive, so renters could still be charged up to three months rent until June 30.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Senate Bill 95 went into effect March 29 and is retroactive to the first of the year.
    — Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Brieske's move to the injury list is retroactive to Monday.
    — Chandler Engelbrecht, Detroit Free Press, 21 July 2022
  • Anderson went on the IL retroactive to May 30 with a strained right groin.
    — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2022
  • Finally, though the tax was made law this year, it was made retroactive back to 2022.
    — Trevor Wagener, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Irvin was placed on the IL retroactive to May 2 with left shoulder soreness.
    — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 May 2022
  • Like the income tax cut in Montana, the tax relief in Idaho is made retroactive to the first day of 2021.
    — Patrick Gleason, Forbes, 4 July 2021
  • Gott, who was placed on the 15-day IL retroactive to June 6 with a right groin strain, is playing catch and running.
    — Curt Hogg, Journal Sentinel, 15 June 2022
  • The higher payments are retroactive to the week of July 25 but won’t begin for six weeks.
    — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Aug. 2020
  • But that didn’t require a major retroactive overhaul of the Key Bridge.
    — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The bill that passed the state House this weekend and now goes to the Governor’s desk cuts income-tax rates across the board by about 21%, retroactive to Jan. 1.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The Braves placed Hamels on the 10-day injured list, retroactive to Sept. 18, but that was a mere formality.
    — Paul Newberry, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Sep. 2020
  • If the retroactive pay sets the rate back six months, how long can the benefits be suspended?
    — Laurence Kotlikoff, Forbes, 11 Apr. 2021
  • The raise, approved Tuesday on a 3-0 vote, is retroactive to July 1.
    — Lauren J. Mapp, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Payments are promised to be retroactive for only the weeks ending Aug. 1 through Sept. 5.
    — Rich Exner, cleveland, 22 Sep. 2020
  • The payments to jobless workers will be retroactive to Aug. 1.
    — Summer Lin, chicagotribune.com, 26 Aug. 2020
  • The 13% pay increase will be retroactive to the start of the current fiscal year, or last Oct. 1, according to the new contract.
    — Martin E. Comas, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2023
  • One of his biggest questions is whether the order is retroactive.
    — Trisha Thadani, SFChronicle.com, 22 Jan. 2021
  • This year’s increase is retroactive to May 1, Trustee Scott Kunze said.
    — chicagotribune.com, 7 Oct. 2021
  • But the unions say retired employees are not seeing all the retroactive pay they were owed.
    — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 9 Dec. 2024

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