verb [V]
1 (of a document, an agreement, etc.) to be no longer valid because the period of time for which it could be used has ended
SYNRUNOUT:
When does your driving licence expire? * Our lease on the house expires next month.
2 (of a period of time, especially one during which sb holds a position of authority) to end:
His term of office expires at the end of June.
3 (literary) to die
seealsoUNEXPIRED
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for expire is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does expire appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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