Crossword-Solution: RETROACTIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Retroactive | a. | Fitted or designed to retroact; operating by returned action; affecting what is past; retrospective. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “RETROACTIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| EFFECTIVE as of prior time | 1 answer |
| Pass through | 73 answers |
| Pass on | 81 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RETROACTIVE (5)
Milner contended for a five years' retroactive franchise, with provisions to secure adequate representation for the mining districts.
Trollop, you are pledged to support the Indigent Congressmen's Retroactive Appropriation which is to come up, either in this or the next session.
And soon to swell his treasury, which not even his plunder, brigandage, and extortionate confiscations could fill sufficiently to satisfy his greed, he set himself to look into the past lives of the nobles, and to promulgate laws that were retroactive, so that he was enabled to levy fresh fines and perpetrate fresh sequestrations in punishment of deeds that had been done long years ago.
This regulative notion of a potential better truth to be established later, possibly to be established some day absolutely, and having powers of retroactive legislation, turns its face, like all pragmatist notions, towards concreteness of fact, and towards the future.
The premature escape of the cat from the bag would spoil everything.” And he hugged himself, as one snatched from peril, in a qualm of retroactive terror.
Quotes with RETROACTIVE (3)
Both Heaven and Hell are retroactive, all of one's life will eventually be known to have been one or the other.
Epitaph n: an inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
Congress passed the deeply flawed Patriot Act and authorized the invasion of Iraq. It even gave its retroactive approval to warrantless wiretapping.