noun
- actions that have an effect on past events or situations; backward-acting influences
Usage: formal; technical
Examples
- The new law’s retroactions affected cases from the previous decade.
- Scientists studied the retroactions of the policy changes on historical data.
- The committee examined potential retroactions of the proposed amendments.
- Legal experts debated the constitutional limits of such retroactions.
- The retroactions of the court’s decision reached back five years.
- Economists analyzed the retroactions of the tax reform on past investments.