Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of coming to a close; termination: the expiration of a contract.
- n. The act of breathing out; exhalation.
- n. Archaic Death.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of breathing out; expulsion of air from the lungs in the process of respiration: opposed to inspiration.
- n. The last emission of breath; cessation; death.
- n. Close; end; conclusion; termination: as, the expiration of a month or year; the expiration of a contract or a lease.
- n. That which is produced by audible expiring or breathing out, as a sound.
- n. Emission of volatile matter from any substance; evaporation; exhalation: as, the expiration of oxygen by plants.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of expiring
- n. The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth; as, respiration consists of inspiration and expiration; -- opposed to inspiration.
- n. Emission of volatile matter; exhalation.
- n. The last emission of breath; death.
- n. A coming to a close; cessation; extinction; termination; end.
- n. That which is expired; matter breathed forth; that which is produced by breathing out, as a sound.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of expiring.
- n. (Physiol.) The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth; ; -- opposed to
inspiration . - n. Emission of volatile matter; exhalation.
- n. The last emission of breath; death.
- n. A coming to a close; cessation; extinction; termination; end.
- n. That which is expired; matter breathed forth; that which is produced by breathing out, as a sound.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of expelling air from the lungs
- n. euphemistic expressions for death
- n. a coming to an end of a contract period
Examples
“In order to set that up, the council agreed on the term expiration date for places one and two being March 15, 2011 and term expiration date for places three, four and five being March 15, 2013.”
“No more automatic reappointment of sitting directors at their term expiration if no one else runs for the seat.”
“Current board members and their term expiration dates are:”
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“Because of a term expiration, a vacancy exists on the Lafayette Preservation Commission for a four-year term effective Nov. 19, 2008.”
“Also appointed to that board was Larry Craig with a term expiration of Aug. 12, 2009.”
“A slump following the credit's expiration is likely, although the exact timing is difficult to predict.”
“A short-term expiration would not interrupt continuing operations but would bar the government from seeking warrants for new investigations.”
The Wall Street Journal: Congress OKs Extending Key Patriot Act Provisions
“A short-term expiration would not interrupt ongoing operations but would bar the government from seeking warrants for new investigations.”
“Had the bank regulators set a relatively short term expiration date -- perhaps a year -- on the asset guarantee, Citigroup would have a strong incentive to dump the assets at whatever price it would take to find a buyer, or else face the real possibility of additional shareholder losses once the guarantee expired.”
The Wall Street Journal: Let's Encourage Banks to Dump Bad Assets
“LEAPS, by the very nature of their long-term expiration dates, help to overcome this stigma.”
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