Usually means: Applying effects to the past.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word retroactively:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. retroactively: Merriam-Webster
  2. retroactively: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. retroactively: Collins English Dictionary
  4. retroactively: Vocabulary.com
  5. Retroactively, retroactively: Wordnik
  6. retroactively: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. retroactively: Wiktionary
  8. Retroactively, retroactively: Dictionary.com
  9. retroactively: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Retroactively: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Retroactively: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. retroactively: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. retroactively: Rhymezone
  14. Retroactively: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. retroactively: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. retroactively: FreeDictionary.org
  17. retroactively: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. retroactively: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. retroactively: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. retroactively: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retroactively: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (retroactively)

▸ adverb:  Done after the fact; applying to events that have previously transpired.

Similar:
post factum, post hoc, post festum, back, afterhand, posthoc, backward, behind, posteriourly, subsequently, more...

Opposite:
proactively, presently, currently, in advance

Types:
ex post facto, more...

Phrases:
retroactively adding information, more...

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Similar:
post factum, post hoc, post festum, back, afterhand, posthoc, backward, behind, posteriourly, subsequently, more...

Opposite:
proactively, presently, currently, in advance

Types:
ex post facto, more...

Phrases:
retroactively adding information, more...



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