out-of-date

Preposition: in

respect: We later discovered that Nicholson's was out-of-date in respect of Ramsey.

Modifies a noun

• check: If you give us an out-of-date check, we may return it to you.
• content: Please note that some out-of-date content has not been moved.
• stock: Out-of-date stock will only be destroyed in the presence of a police officer.
• version: But the clichéd, out-of-date version of the canon has it so.
• information: There is no excuse for out-of-date information on the net.
• equipment: Clerical and admin workers generally have the most out-of-date equipment while the computers get better the higher up the organization you go.

Modifying Another Word

• slightly: More events here on our 2006 Calendar Previous Meetings ( most probably slightly out-of-date!
• already: Every day the numbers change, so the day these figures were culled, they were already out-of-date.
• often: As employers are often out-of-date, you are advised to print off the relevant pages to show a prospective employer.
• now: I regret that some of the contributed news is now out-of-date, which is not the fault of the original authors.
• very: It also meant that a new and powerful management system could be created, without altering a fragile and very out-of-date system.
• rather: However, at present many of their Grid areas seem to be rather out-of-date.

Used with adjective complement

• become: Copies of the website held on local machines would rapidly become out-of-date.
• go: Information can go out-of-date quickly, particularly in some areas of medicine.
• get: Finally, e-mail us regularly with updates, so that your association website never gets out-of-date.