Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An expiration, especially of a contract or an agreement.
  • noun Death.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Expiration; termination.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Expiration.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun UK end, termination, expiration
  • noun UK death

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the event of dying or departure from life
  • noun a coming to an end of a contract period

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Examples

  • Must do this before November when the 2 years since expiry is up.

    June « Mad Dave and Lil 2010

  • Many people are questioning the need for such a short term expiry on passports.

    Passport Backlog Could be Avoided With Longer Expiration « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009

  • Many people are questioning the need for such a short term expiry on passports.

    2009 May 27 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009

  • For example, if we require active participation on twiki. org, svn, or the mailing list, with short term expiry, we exclude Will Thomas, Adam Hyde, and anyone that goes on a long sabbatical. tbh, i feel this may be a good thing, as voting without a full knowledge of the issues is not as good for the group.

    TWiki.Codev 2008

  • The commission said in January that the vote would be held in August due to security issues and logistical problems, not 30 to 60 days before Karzai's scheduled term expiry on May

    680news.com 2009

  • What's New in This Release: [read full changelog] · Increased usability (e.g. email filters in Ajax WebMail, Free/Busy enhancements) and security (Greylisting, password expiry notifications in Outlook), and many more.

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Windows 2010

  • What's New in This Release: [read full changelog] · Increased usability (e.g. email filters in Ajax WebMail, Free/Busy enhancements) and security (Greylisting, password expiry notifications in Outlook), and many more.

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Windows 2010

  • What's New in This Release: [read full changelog] · Increased usability (e.g. email filters in Ajax WebMail, Free/Busy enhancements) and security (Greylisting, password expiry notifications in Outlook), and many more.

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Windows 2010

  • To get the password expiry date enter chage - l userName

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2010

  • It basically makes granting and revoking rights a piece of cake, not to mention added security it provides through password expiry and password history, the customization level it permits, the fact that it runs on any MySQL 5.0 or later and it's easily deployable on any official MySQL binary, platform independent. to this page.

    Planet MySQL Stefan Hinz 2010

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