English-French translations for retroactively

• rétroactivement
  Ses dispositions ne s'appliqueront pas rétroactivement. The provisions will not apply retroactively.
  Cela change aussi la responsabilité du propriétaire rétroactivement. To do so also changes the owner' s liability retroactively.
  En outre, toutes ces mesures seront applicables rétroactivement à partir du 1er août 2006. In addition, all these measures would apply retroactively from 1 August 2006.

Definition of retroactively

• Done after the fact; applying to events that have previously transpired

Examples

• The new legislature passed a resolution retroactively legalizing the actions of the revolutionaries that brought them to power.

Related words

• retroactive
• retroactivity
• be retroactive