up-to-date

up-to-date

See also: uptodate and up to date

English

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌʌp tə ˈdeɪt/
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Adjective

up-to-date (comparative more up-to-date, superlative most up-to-date)

  1. (before the noun, idiomatic) Current; recent; the latest.
    Use an up-to-date text for your source.
    • 1960 May, K. A. Murray, “Carlisle Pier, Dun Laoghaire”, in Railway Magazine, page 303:
      From 1860, the steamer service between Kingstown and Holyhead was operated by the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, which never spared expense in providing up-to-date vessels, and in meeting a portion of the cost of improvements to Carlisle Pier.
    • 2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 248:
      Yet, in spite of this interest there has been little movement in the field of lexicography, so that Indian English has no up-to-date dictionaries to speak of, certainly nothing published in the twenty-first century.
  2. (idiomatic) Informed about the latest news or developments; abreast.
    I like to stay up-to-date about current affairs.

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Translations

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English up-to-date.

Adjective

up-to-date (indeclinable, comparative mer up-to-date, superlative mest up-to-date)

  1. up-to-date
    Synonyms: à jour, oppdatert

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