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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
backdate .
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Examples
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On the other hand, it is not surprising that a company whose CEO gave himself $750 million in backdated stock options was, to say the least, less than candid and ethical in its business practices.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Putting Lipstick on the Health-Reform Pig: 2010
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As a result, staffers expected fat paychecks of thousands of dollars in backdated raises at the exact time that Sampson was accusing Senate Republicans of stalling legislation in an attempt to seize the spoils of majority leadership.
New York Senate Drama! Showdown! Conflict! Pay Raises! - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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An internal investigation at RIM revealed that options had been "backdated" - or set at earlier lower prices that would give the recipient an immediate gain on paper - leading to improper accounting treatment in the company's books.
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James H. Burrus, the acting assistant director of criminal investigation at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was at Wednesday's press conference and called backdated options "the corporate equivalent of placing a bet after the race has been run."
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She says: If you are going UP in minutes before the end of the billing cycle, you can ask to have the price plan change 'backdated' to the start of the billing cycle.
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She says:If you are going UP in minutes before the end of the billing cycle, you can ask to have the price plan change 'backdated' to the start of the billing cycle.
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Earlier this year, Johnson was deposed in a lawsuit against him and other officers and directors of UnitedHealth, whose CEO departed in 2006 in a scandal over "backdated" stock options.
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This kind of thinking is why so many executives "backdated" options -- in quotes here because of the euphemism for options that are falsely dated.
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I'm getting no 'backdated' error messages the way I did when I first set it up.
Linkspam! charmax 2008
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This kind of thinking is why so many executives "backdated" options - in quotes here because of the euphemism for options that are falsely dated.
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