up-to-date

up-to-date
*up-to-date
modern or contemporary. (*Typically: be\up-to-date; get \up-to-date.) •

Is the room up-to-date, or is it standard?

Your knowledge is not really up-to-date on this matter.

up-to-date
modern; up to the current standards of fashion; having the most current information. •

I'd like to see a more up-to-date report on Mr. Smith.

This is not an up-to-date record of the construction project.

* * *
{adj.} Modern; 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.

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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