EXPIRE


Meaning of EXPIRE in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

sb's membership expires/lapses (= it comes to an end )

We will send you a letter when your membership is about to expire.

sb's visa expires/runs out (= it ends )

I had 14 days to leave the country because my visa had expired.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

agreement

That agreement is about to expire .

Tomorrow, talks are scheduled to begin on a new musicians contract to replace the collective bargaining agreement that expired Friday.

This agreement will expire in March 1987, and it has been decided not to renew it.

The old agreement expired October 28.

The agreements expired in 1992 and were not renewed, because they afforded the kind of protection banned under international trade agreements.

The temporary funding agreement expires at the end of the week.

The two companies' original three-year joint-venture agreement is expiring .

The bad news is that the current basic agreement expires Oct. 31.

authority

The authority will expire at the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting of the Company to be held in 1994.

The settlement put a Dec. 31 deadline on meeting conditions of the agreement or the purchasing authority would expire .

Both these authorities expire on the date of the forthcoming Annual General Meeting.

That authority will expire at the end of this year's Annual General Meeting and Resolution 9 seeks a renewal of it.

contract

They are the only members of the first-team squad whose contracts expire at the end of the season.

The February crude contract expires Monday after Nymex floor trading ends.

Well, the answer is that my contract expires after six more commercials.

His contract expires at the end of this season, and there should be more than a few teams interested.

Despite calls for his head, Taylor yesterday pledged to stay on until his contract expires after the World Cup in 1994.

He moved his family to Beverly Hills in 1919 and made twelve pictures before the contract expired .

A fixed-term contract naturally expires at the end of the contract period.

The contracts are due to expire in July, and a decision on the new three-year contracts are due in the spring.

end

They are the only members of the first-team squad whose contracts expire at the end of the season.

A restriction that he refrain from counseling women will expire at the end of this month.

You will be required to vacate the land on six months notice expiring at the end of any month. 5.

His contract expires at the end of this season, and there should be more than a few teams interested.

A fixed-term contract naturally expires at the end of the contract period.

His contract there was due to expire at the end of this month.

His cooling-off period does not expire until the end of seven days following the acceptance.

The temporary funding agreement expires at the end of the week.

lease

This set me up so that, when the lease expired , I found backers to move one.

Several of the leases are set to expire this year.

The term of the lease is limited to expire in 2015.

And when the lease expires , their flats become the landlord's property.

The reader does not disclose the term of the original lease which expired on 25 March 1991.

It closed only last Christmas, when the lease expired .

The lease has now expired and a compulsory purchase order has been placed.

As the original lease had expired , a new Committee was appointed to consider how best to make the garden viable.

midnight

The offer expired at midnight yesterday as scheduled.

The bills would replace a temporary spending bill that expires at midnight Friday.

month

Gullit's lucrative contract expires next month and he has yet to agree another one.

The company said it expects between one-half to two-thirds of eligible workers to accept the offer, which expires later this month .

offer

Shah made a counter offer , which expired last night, with a £1m premium.

The offer expired at midnight yesterday as scheduled.

The offer expires on Feb. 1.

The offer expired at 12: 00 midnight, New York City time, on August 30, 2000.

The company said it expects between one-half to two-thirds of eligible workers to accept the offer , which expires later this month.

period

The payment had originally been due on April 1 but the Toronto-based company had a grace period which expired on Thursday.

The state had 30 days to appeal, a period that expired this week.

Unless the Commission extends this period , parties may conclude a merger after the three week period has expired .

Yet he can still play for his former club while he waits for the clearing period to expire .

Apply before the first priority period has expired .

By the time this letter is published, the Faculty examination consultation period will have expired .

His cooling-off period does not expire until the end of seven days following the acceptance.

In such circumstances the seller is not entitled to refuse delivery unless the agreed period has already expired .

tax

The matured loan notes can be rolled over indefinitely until the tax liability expires .

The tax expired last Dec. 31, a casualty of a congressional budget impasse in Washington.

The current tax expires next October.

With the tax expired , most airlines also have cut their fares accordingly.

A tax break also expired for hiring young people, certain veterans and other targeted groups, according to Woolf.

term

Sartzetakis's term was due to expire on March 30.

Polanco's office said the Senate majority leader will instead fulfill his term , which expires in 2002.

His current four-year term expires next year.

He has scheduled a phony parliamentary election for October 15, and his own term expires next year.

One day, Cyprian called for new elections for steward, even though the old terms had not expired .

In return he would be allowed to continue in office, with his term not due to expire until 1996.

time

The allotted air time had expired .

The 70 day time limit had expired , and the prosecutor sought an extension of time, which was refused.

In time honoured tradition, the players returned well after the curfew time had expired .

year

The numbers of tenancies expiring each year are approximately equal.

His current four-year term expires next year .

He has scheduled a phony parliamentary election for October 15, and his own term expires next year .

Several of the leases are set to expire this year .

The sentences of many of them had expired 17 years ago.

years

The sentences of many of them had expired 17 years ago.

And rents, mostly above-market rates currently, could fall once leases begin to expire in coming years .

Those compacts expire after 10 years .

■ VERB

schedule

Approval for the money is scheduled to expire by the end of March unless the committee acts.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

I'm afraid we can't accept this credit card -- it expired last week.

My driver's license expires on October 12.

She retired six months before her contract expired.

The chairman's term of office expires at the end of March.

Your passport will expire ten years from the issue date.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Between 1775 and 1800, when their patent expired, 321 steam-engines were built.

In the natural scheme of things, Glover should have expired on the day Johnson was born.

The government is now operating under a temporary measure, or continuing resolution, that expires at the end of next week.

The offer expires on Feb. 1.

Unless the Commission extends this period, parties may conclude a merger after the three week period has expired.

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