up to date

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See also: uptodate and up-to-date

English[edit]

Prepositional phrase[edit]

up to date

  1. Alternative spelling of up-to-date
    • 1913 May 15, Elizabeth Newport Hepburn, “A Question Not of Sex Appeal; But of Prevailing Mode.”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
      The clothes of these marching women were, it is quite true, essentially up to date.
    • 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly[2], volume 189, number 2, page 27:
      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.
    • 2023 August 23, Chris Howe, “Green screen: HS2's route through the shires”, in RAIL, number 990, page 35:
      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.

Noun[edit]

up to date (plural up to dates)

  1. (cocktails) A sherry based cocktail.

Further reading[edit]

up to date (cocktail) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia