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expiree Chiefly Austral.|ɛkˌspaɪəˈriː|
[f. expire v. + -ee; after Fr. expiré in same sense.]
One whose term of punishment has expired; an ex-convict. Also attrib.
1802Bentham Wks. (1843) xi. 123 As to returns to England, the idea of preventing them on the part of expirees..is now disclaimed. 1838Tait's Mag. V. 781 The free emigrants of South Australia, and the emancipists and expirees of Van Dieman's Land. 1847J. D. Lang Cooksland ix. 271 Very many of their servants, being old hands or Expiree convicts from New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, are thoroughly unprincipled men. 1863Lond. Rev. 3 Jan. 4/2 Sir Walter Crofton..traces every expiree where he can. 1883E. M. Curr Recoll. Squatting in Victoria v. 40 Wages were high, and labourers (almost all old gaol-birds and expiree convicts) exceedingly independent and rowdy. 1884Pall Mall G. 21 Oct. 1/9 Convicts in New Caledonia, who may be expected to overflow into Victoria either as fugitives or expirees. |