up to date

noun

A sherry-based cocktail.

Meanings

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

comparative more up to date · superlative most up to date

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of up-to-date.

    The clothes of these marching women were, it is quite true, essentially up to date.

    1913 May 15, Elizabeth Newport Hepburn, “A Question Not of Sex Appeal; But of Prevailing Mode.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    2 more examples

    The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing",[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.

    2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27

    For example, during the early days of construction, some landowners and local residents felt they were not being kept up to date with what was happening on a day-to-day basis, or that information wasn't always easy to come by.

    2023 August 23, Chris Howe, “Green screen: HS2's route through the shires”, in RAIL, number 990, page 35
nounup to date (plural up to dates)

plural up to dates

  1. cocktailsA sherry-based cocktail.

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivein accord with the most fashionable ideas or style

adjectivereflecting the latest information or changes

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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Chicago

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