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单词 time-expired
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time-expired
time-expired adj. whose time (of engagement as a soldier, imprisonment, etc.) has expired; in respect of which a period of time (during which something may be sold, used, etc.) has expired.
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society > occupation and work > lack of work > [adjective] > dismissing or discharging > dismissed or discharged
discarded1631
time-expired1822
paid-off1894
sacked1934
pink-slipped1957
society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [adjective] > term of sentence expired
time-expired1822
the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [adjective] > late > after the expiry of a time-limit
time-barred1872
time-expired1960
1822 in Hist. Rec. Austral. (1922) 3rd Ser. V. 51 Edited by a time expired Convict, and printed and published by an emancipated Felon.
1828 Morning Post 30 Dec. The Madras..has arrived off Margate... Passengers..twenty-five invalids, and Company's time expired soldiers.
1885 Sir H. Green in Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Feb. 2/1 Time-expired soldiers in India will not, as a rule, re-enter the ranks.
1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 May 402/4 The kindly Egyptian prince who..helped time-expired convicts to find honest employment.
1960 Times 5 Dec. p. vii/4 An egg producer who sold his time-expired hens as boiling-fowls.
1972 Times 17 Oct. 14/7 Return of time-expired stock like sausages and yoghurt.
1974 Ciba Symp. 20 253 Those of us who have used ‘time-expired’ human blood from blood banks in culture media have frequently found that some batches are highly toxic to trypanosomes.
2000 Observer 18 June (Review section) 7/5 A seat salvaged from a time-expired Rover became an armchair.
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