expireverb [ I ]
uk/ɪkˈspaɪər/us/ɪkˈspaɪr/expire verb [ I ] (END)
C2 If something that lasts for a fixed length of time expires, it comes to an end or stops being in use:
My passport expires next month.
The contract between the two companies will expire at the end of the year.
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- The lease on the property expires in two years' time.
- The government's term of office expires at the end of the year.
- Cohen, whose contract expires next week, is likely to move to play for a European club.
- Did you realize that the tax on your car has expired?
- When my annual membership expires, I shan't bother to renew it.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Coming to an end
- come off
- come off sth
- come out
- come to a full stop idiom
- come to a head idiom
- come to sth
- come to the end of the road idiom
- fizzle
- go out (of) the window idiom
- head
- land
- land up
- lapse
- let
- let up
- peter
- road
- run
- the sun sets on sth idiom
- wind up
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expire verb [ I ] (DIE)
literary to die
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Death and dying
- be pushing up (the) daisies idiom
- bereave
- bite
- bury
- buy the farm idiom
- deceased
- depart
- done
- drop
- foot
- gone
- inquest
- loss
- mortality
- peg
- posthumous
- road kill
- SIDS
- sudden infant death syndrome
- the disappeared
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