Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Breathing out air from the lungs; emitting fluid or volatile matter; exhaling; breathing the last breath; dying; ending; terminating.
- adjective Pertaining to, or uttered at, the time of dying
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- adjective
Ending ,terminating ,dying . - verb Present participle of
expire .
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Examples
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The Board of Directors has appointed Mr. Weinberg, 82, as Class III director with a term expiring in 2012, to fill the vacant position created by Mr. Berger's passing.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Governor Price for the remainder of his term expiring February 28, 1944, and confirmed by the Senate, and
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Frederick W. Scott was re-elected Rector for the term expiring February 28, 1940, and E.
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I. Carruthers was re-elected Secretary for the term expiring February 28, 1942.
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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.
Philadelphia Business News - Local Philadelphia News | The Philadelphia Business Journal 2010
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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.
San Antonio Business News - Local San Antonio News | The San Antonio Business Journal 2010
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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.
Los Angeles Business News - Local Los Angeles News | Los Angeles Business from bizjournals 2010
GHibbs commented on the word expiring
My adjectival use: 'You need to renew your expiring subscription.'
August 22, 2011
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March 12, 2012