up-to-date

up-to-date {adj.}

Modem; contemporary; the latest that technology can offer.

"I want an up-to-date dictionary of American idioms," Mr. Lee said, "that has all the latest Americanisms in it."

Contrast: STATE-OF-THE-ART.

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