Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Subject to decay, spoilage, or destruction.
- noun plural Items, especially foodstuffs, that are subject to decay or spoilage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Liable to perish; subject to decay or destruction; mortal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Liable to perish; subject to decay, destruction, or death
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun That which
perishes or isshort-lived . - noun in the plural
food that does not keep for long. - adjective Liable to
perish , especiallynaturally subject to quickdecomposition ordecay .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun food that will decay rapidly if not refrigerated
- adjective liable to perish; subject to destruction or death or decay
Etymologies
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Examples
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Instead, they will continue to collect what they call perishable evidence -- parts and pieces that will lose their meaning once the plane is moved.
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Travel tickets are what I call perishable goods: If a company doesn't sell seats, then they lose them.
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Prices of private-label perishable foods are rising even faster, up 12% last year versus an 8% jump for national brands.
Store Brands Step Up Their Game, and Prices Hannah Karp 2012
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Also need non-perishable food and long-term perishable food items, personal hygiene items, medicine chest items, toilet paper and cleaning items.
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Because it is 'perishable' - generally reaching peak maturity after 25 years before declining
This is Money | Home 2010
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"The law of limitation as to real property," London, 1869), and their muniments of title perishable (Angell, op. cit.,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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This form of advertising is what I like to call perishable advertising.
Web Advertising and Website Marketing - By Rob Scribner 2010
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Shrimp is highly perishable, which is why most shrimp is flash-frozen and held in speculation to be released as needed, he said.
JSOnline.com 2010
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The sauce / soup packet is quite impressive in it's heft and the fact that it's sludge-like and most-likely perishable, which is why the product is sold frozen.
Guilty Carnivore 2009
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Information may or may not be technically "perishable" but there are limits on how long it has much in the way of utility/value/interest/pertinence.
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