Meanings
- not comparableprisoner etc.Whose time has expired, having served their time.
- not comparableWhere a period of time, during which something can be sold or used, has expired.
- not comparableAt the end of its life.
1 more example
At the same time the civil engineers knew that the older of the two Clyde bridges was in need of early renewal. The signalling engineers solved their problem by concluding that bi-directional working over all running lines on the later, wider bridge would allow the elimination of the time-expired structure.
1961 March, “The new Glasgow Central signalbox”, in Trains Illustrated, page 177Synonyms: life-expired
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveAt the end of its life.
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