Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to or used in the breathing out of air from the lungs.
- Pertaining or belonging to the close of life; occurring just before death: as, expiring efforts; expiring groans.
Wiktionary
- adj. Ending, terminating, dying.
- v. present participle of expire.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Breathing out air from the lungs; emitting fluid or volatile matter; exhaling; breathing the last breath; dying; ending; terminating.
- adj. Pertaining to, or uttered at, the time of dying
Examples
“Mr. Hantler and Mr. Smith will serve as additional Class II directors, each for a term expiring on the date of the Company's 2013 annual meeting of stockholders.”
“Albert DiClemente, of Delaware, to be a Director of the Amtrak Board of Directors for the remainder of the term expiring July 26, 2011 Source”
“With 18 months to go, what's a president to do to hang on, run out the clock, and leave office through the normal front door process of his term expiring, not the result of the Senate voting him out earlier by "the (required) Concurrence of two-thirds of the Members present" - hard as that is to do as history shows.”
“Governor Price for the remainder of his term expiring February 28, 1944, and confirmed by the Senate, and”
“Frederick W. Scott was re-elected Rector for the term expiring February 28, 1940, and E.”
“I. Carruthers was re-elected Secretary for the term expiring February 28, 1942.”
“Marvin, who has been on the Minneapolis Fed board since 2006 and its chair since January, will serve an additional year as board chair, with the term expiring Dec. 31, 2011.”
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“Victoria A. Lipnic, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for the remainder of the term expiring July 1, 2010, vice Naomi Churchill Earp, to which position she was appointed during the last recess of the Senate.”
“Donetta Davidson, of Colorado, to be a Member of the Election Assistance Commission, Rosemary E. Rodriguez, of Colorado, to be a Member of the Election Assistance Commission, and Gineen Bresso Beach, of New York, to be a Member of the Election Assistance Commission for the remainder of the term expiring December 12, 2009. 2: 30 pm.”
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GHibbs My adjectival use: 'You need to renew your expiring subscription.' Aug 22, 2011