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RETROACT

Definition: RETROACT

RETROACT

Intransitive verb

1. To act backward, or in return; to act in opposition; to be retrospective.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Note: Retroact \Re`tro*act"\, intransitive verb. [Prefix retro- act.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: RETROACT

English words defined with "RETROACT": Retro-. (references)

Modern Translations: RETROACT

Language		Translations for "RETROACT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		реагирам (act up, react, respond), имам обратна сила, действувам в обратна посока. (various references)

Finnish		taannehtia. (various references)

German		zurückwirken (react, to retroact). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		遡上 (going upstream, retrospect). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		そじょう (brief, complaint, going upstream, on the chopping board, petition, retrospect). (various references)

Pig Latin		etroactray

Romanian		reacţiona (act, answer, react), avea efect retroactiv. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations & Misspellings: RETROACT

Derivations
	Words beginning with "RETROACT": retroacted, retroacting, retroaction, retroactions, retroactive, retroactively, retroactivities, retroactivity, retroacts. (additional references)
	Words containing "RETROACT": nonretroactive. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"RETROACT" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: retroarc, retrocast, Rotofac, rotoract. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: RETROACT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-o-r-r-t-t"
	-1 letter: creator, reactor, retract, tractor.
	-2 letters: carrot, carter, coater, cottae, cottar, cotter, crater, ratter, rector, retort, rotate, rotter, tarter, tracer, trocar.
	-3 letters: actor, carer, caret, carte, cater, corer, cotta, crate, crore, oater, ocrea, octet, orate, ottar, otter, racer, rater, react, recta, recto, retro, rotte, tacet, taroc, tarot, tarre, tater, tecta, terra, tetra, torte, toter.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-o-r-r-t-t"
	+1 letter: detractor, extractor, rectorate, retractor, retroacts.
	+2 letters: carrotiest, detractors, extractors, meritocrat, protracted, rectorates, retraction, retractors, retroacted, tetrachord, trajectory, trochanter.
	+3 letters: astrometric, carburettor, contracture, contrariety, counterpart, directorate, gerontocrat, meritocrats, orchestrate, protectoral, protractile, protractive, retractions, retroacting, retroaction, retroactive, tetrachords, tetrasporic, triceratops, trochanters.
	+4 letters: carburettors, carrottopped, concentrator, contractures, counterparts, countertrade, decorticator, directorates, gerontocrats, meritocratic, orchestrated, orchestrater, orchestrates, orchestrator, overabstract, postfracture, practitioner, precipitator, protectorate, resuscitator, retroactions, sportscaster, trajectories, trichopteran, trochanteral, trochanteric.
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Alternative Orthography: RETROACT

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 45 54 52 4F 41 43 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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