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OUT-OF-DATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does out-of-date mean?
• OUT-OF-DATE (adjective)
The adjective OUT-OF-DATE has 1 sense:
1. old; no longer valid or fashionable
Familiarity information: OUT-OF-DATE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Old; no longer valid or fashionable
Synonyms:
out-of-date; outdated; superannuated
Context example:
out-of-date ideas
Similar:
noncurrent (not current or belonging to the present time)
Context examples
Once in London, she gave us the slip, and, as I say, left these out-of-date jewels to pay her bills.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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