Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having completed one's term of enlistment or service.

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Examples

  • He was a time-expired UN remote-control peacekeeper, out of the military at sixteen; who had taken the free Lottery option as part of his severance pay.

    The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

  • On the deck sailors and time-expired soldiers were lying asleep side by side; there were so many of them it was difficult to pass.

    The Witch, and other stories 2004

  • They was still discharging time-expired men long after I got my papers.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • They was still discharging time-expired men long after I got my papers.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • Here I am to allocate sixty-acre grants to Sirius men like Drummond and Hibbs as well as some of my own time-expired marines, yet I have no surveyor.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • Here I am to allocate sixty-acre grants to Sirius men like Drummond and Hibbs as well as some of my own time-expired marines, yet I have no surveyor.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • The Government gave them a small supply of drugs, and Burkhardt got the rest from various companies that were happy to dispose of time-expired drugs which would still work perfectly well.

    Tears Of The Giraffe Smith, Alexander McCall, 1948- 2000

  • Todd sulked: "She threw them out like time-expired antibiotics."

    Microserfs Coupland, Douglas 1995

  • Oh, you time-expired man, you not care what army do how often I hear you say that?

    A Rude Awakening Aldiss, Brian 1978

  • I am time-expired, flying out on Monday, and the RSM has excused me duties. '

    A Rude Awakening Aldiss, Brian 1978

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