post-date

基本解釋

There you can borrow money in small amounts, generally not much more than $500, against your post-dated pay-cheque.
那裡你可以借到不超過(guò)500美元的小額貸款，用來(lái)支付延期兌付支票。
In the boom in Kuwait between 1977 and 1982, people started to use post-dated cheques to pay for shares and property.
1977到82年間科威特信用繁榮，遠(yuǎn)期支票開(kāi)始應(yīng)用於股份和財(cái)産支付。
The funding crisis in public-sector pensions is, in large part, the result of post-dated cheques written by politicians in the past.
在很大程度上，公共部門(mén)養(yǎng)老金資金危機(jī)的罪魁禍?zhǔn)资峭照蛡冮_(kāi)出的遠(yuǎn)期支票。

If so, why was the letter post-dated?
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On a postdated cheque, the date is a later one than the date when the cheque was actually written. You write a postdated check to allow a period of time before the money is taken from your account.