Definition of expire in English:

expire

verb ɪkˈspʌɪəɛkˈspʌɪəˌɪkˈspaɪ(ə)r

1no object (of a document, authorization, or agreement) come to the end of the period of validity.
（文件，授权书，协议）期满；成为无效；失效
his driving licence expired
他的驾驶执照过期了。
Example sentencesExamples
- An existing work agreement expires on August 14 and negotiations for a new one have broken down.
- Ex-patriots must make extra trips to the police station permit section if the documents often expire at different times.
- ‘It was signed off before the old agreement had even expired,’ she said.
- The two sides agreed to resume negotiations a few minutes before midnight June 25 when the old agreement expired.
- When her initial six-month agreement expired, she renewed and, by the end of the first year, had exceeded her targets.
- He has since been taken into custody by Indian authorities because his visa expired.
- The credit period extended by this Agreement shall expire in any event fifty-one weeks from the date of this Agreement.
- The old collective agreement expired in May and talks began shortly thereafter.
- The dairy price support program expires May 31, 2002.
- It has been negotiating a new enterprise agreement with the union since the last document expired in December, 1999.
- A maximum of five refills may be authorized; if refills are indicated, the prescription expires six months from the date written.
- The last collective agreement expired in July 2002 but a new contract has not been established despite extensive negotiations and mediation.
- If you hate your current provider the end of your contract seems like a lifetime away but if you love your provider, you probably don't even know when your subscriber agreement expires.
- At the end of all this, when the planning permission has expired, what will happen to the land at The Hoskers?
- The nearly 10,000 flight attendants have been working without a new contract since their old agreement expired at the end of 1996.
- You will of course be aware that unless the council decides otherwise, your Agreement will expire automatically on 31 March 2004 and no funding will be payable after then in any event.
- The company justified its refusal to rehire the contract workers by claiming that their work agreements had expired.
- The current five-year lease agreement expires in 2002.
- The agreement expires in September 2004 but already the International Monetary Fund has signalled that a new agreement will be discussed on September 23.
- ‘In this way, by 2011, when the 1961 Water Agreement expires, we will not need to renew it,’ he said.
Synonyms
run out, become invalid, become void, be no longer valid, lapse, cease, become obsolete
end, finish, stop, come to an end, conclude, terminate, be over, be at an end
1. 1.1 (of a period of time) come to an end.
  （期限）终止
  the three-year period has expired
  三年的时间已经结束。
  Example sentencesExamples
  After his 10-month term expired, he requested a one-year renewal.
  The president, whose five-year term expires in February next year, is constitutionally barred from seeking another term.
  The caption of the photograph of each Nominating Committee member identifies the person's job title and location and the year her term expires.
  He himself will retire from the company next year when his second five-year term expires.
  On payment of a dowry, the man enjoys full marital rights, with no ongoing responsibility for any resultant children once the stated term expires.
  And yet today he faces a recall effort that could very well end his presidency two years before his term expires.
  You were allowed to leave eight months before your term expired.
  The service costs US $10, and if the three-year period expires before the subscriber does, the customer can renew.
  The hyper-realism of his early work, captured in the first four spy movies, is an ancient memory, a golden age now expired.
  However, he isn't worried that, with two months expired since he left Turf Moor, he is still to find employment.
  That way he might leave the job when his term has expired with more allies than he has right now.
  T will recover the use of the property when S's 25-year term expires.
  Pilots were also informed that they will be required to pay the full €15,000 cost of the training if they leave the airline before the five years has expired.
  It would offer temporary work cards to illegals already in the country, but workers must leave after the period expires.
  When his six-year term expired, his appointment was not renewed and he left Sydney on October 22, 1831.
  Nine days before his leave expired, on 5 August 1994, he applied for asylum.
  The National Conference president also predicted that he will not hand over reigns of power to Congress after his three year term expires in November 2005.
  There have been no indications on whether the team want him to stay beyond the summer of 2006 when his three-year term expires.
  His term expired at the end of this year's championship.
  Second was the class of persons who had exceptional leave with a limit on duration, where that duration had not expired when they left and then returned to the United Kingdom.
  The statement said he did not intend to leave office before his term expires in another five years.
2no object (of a person) die.
（人）死亡，断气
the lady had expired bearing her lord a son
Example sentencesExamples
- Although Laura's exertions keep her warm, the Damps give poor Sophia ‘a galloping Consumption’, and she soon expires, too.
- When I limited her to one suitcase for our England trip the woman almost expired.
- Igneous, who at times has been comical and brutal, transforms here, and when he finally expires, all alone but with love in his heart, it's a touching and sympathetic finale.
- One of my fantasies involves covering the room with strong perfumes through some gadget that kicks in a few hours after I've presumably expired.
- The mortality rate within the ghettos rose and people expired on the street.
- If two doctors agree that the condition has reached the point of no return then it should be agreed to let the person expire with dignity.
- Given their age and infirmity lots of these people have since expired - naturally - over the years.
- Our last Betamax player expired some ten years ago.
- My father expired in 1973, when we were all minors.
- The window of the room will be opened as the dying person expires to allow the spirit to escape the confines of the worldly building.
- On the plus side, the fact that I'm here means I didn't expire in a blazing fireball.
- According to school legend they were taken to the sanatorium, where they would expire after a week or so without ever being able to utter another word.
- Forensic accounting is often regarded in the same way as forensic medicine, a resource only called upon when the patient has expired.
- I pity such detractors, because if their spirits were not massively moved by the tragedy of a great hero expiring on the battlefield, they must be blocks of stones.
- President Kennedy had been shot dead in Dallas a few hours before the writer expired, with the result that hardly any attention was paid to Huxley's achievements in the following day's newspapers.
- Two patients developed respiratory infection and expired during the hospital stay.
- If someone starves, a hero will give up their own food and die before letting that person expire.
Synonyms
die, pass away/on, decease, perish, depart this life, be no more, breathe one's last, draw one's last breath, meet one's end, meet one's death, meet one's Maker, give up the ghost, go to the great beyond, cross the great divide, shuffle off this mortal coil, go the way of the/all flesh, go to one's last resting place
informal kick the bucket, bite the dust, croak, conk out, buy it, turn up one's toes, cash in one's chips, go belly up
British informal snuff it, peg out, pop one's clogs
3technical with object Exhale (air) from the lungs.
〈技〉呼（气）
the volume of expired air
Example sentencesExamples
- The drug is primarily metabolized by the lungs and expired as carbon dioxide.
- An index of alcohol intoxication was measured with a fuel-cell analyzer in air expired after breath was held for 15 sec.
- The crowd seemed suddenly lifeless, as if all wind had expired from their lungs.
- The vocal cords vibrate when air is expired through the glottis, creating sound waves in the column of air within the pharynx, nose, and mouth.
- As the workload increased in the overhead exercise relative to the chest exercise, an increase in the quantity of air inspired and expired was observed.
Synonyms
breathe out, exhale, puff out, blow out, expel, emit

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French expirer, from Latin exspirare 'breathe out', from ex- 'out' + spirare 'breathe'.

spirit from Middle English:
Our word spirit is based on Latin spiritus ‘breath or spirit’, from spirare ‘to breathe’—the ancient Romans believed that the human soul had been ‘breathed’ into the body—the image is the same as ‘the breath of life’. The sense ‘strong distilled alcoholic drink’ comes from the use in alchemy of spirit to mean ‘a liquid essence extracted from some substance’. People sometimes say the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak when they have good intentions but yield to temptation and fail to live up to them. The source is the New Testament, where Jesus uses the phrase after finding his disciples asleep in the Garden of Gethsemane despite telling them that they should stay awake. Spirare forms the basis of numerous English words including aspire (mid 16th century) from adspirare ‘to breath upon, seek to reach’; conspire (Late Middle English) from conspirare ‘to breath together, agree’; expire (late 16th century) ‘to breath out’; inspire (Late Middle English) ‘breath into’ from the idea that a divine or outside power has inspired you; and perspire (mid 17th century) ‘to breath through’; and transpire (Late Middle English) ‘breath across. In English spirit was shortened to sprite (Middle English) which in turn developed sprightly (late 16th century).

Rhymes

acquire, admire, afire, applier, aspire, attire, ayah, backfire, barbwire, bemire, briar, buyer, byre, choir, conspire, crier, cryer, defier, denier, desire, dire, drier, dryer, dyer, enquire, entire, esquire, fire, flyer, friar, fryer, Gaia, gyre, hellfire, hire, hiya, ire, Isaiah, jambalaya, Jeremiah, Josiah, Kintyre, latria, liar, lyre, Maia, Maya, Mayer, messiah, mire, misfire, Nehemiah, Obadiah, papaya, pariah, peripeteia, perspire, playa, Praia, prior, pyre, quire, replier, scryer, shire, shyer, sire, skyer, Sophia, spire, squire, supplier, Surabaya, suspire, tier, tire, transpire, trier, tumble-dryer, tyre, Uriah, via, wire, Zechariah, Zedekiah, Zephaniah

Definition of expire in US English:

expire

verbˌikˈspī(ə)rˌɪkˈspaɪ(ə)r

1no object (of a document, authorization, or agreement) cease to be valid, typically after a fixed period of time.
（文件，授权书，协议）期满；成为无效；失效
the old contract had expired
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘In this way, by 2011, when the 1961 Water Agreement expires, we will not need to renew it,’ he said.
- The credit period extended by this Agreement shall expire in any event fifty-one weeks from the date of this Agreement.
- The two sides agreed to resume negotiations a few minutes before midnight June 25 when the old agreement expired.
- The nearly 10,000 flight attendants have been working without a new contract since their old agreement expired at the end of 1996.
- It has been negotiating a new enterprise agreement with the union since the last document expired in December, 1999.
- If you hate your current provider the end of your contract seems like a lifetime away but if you love your provider, you probably don't even know when your subscriber agreement expires.
- A maximum of five refills may be authorized; if refills are indicated, the prescription expires six months from the date written.
- The current five-year lease agreement expires in 2002.
- The dairy price support program expires May 31, 2002.
- Ex-patriots must make extra trips to the police station permit section if the documents often expire at different times.
- An existing work agreement expires on August 14 and negotiations for a new one have broken down.
- The agreement expires in September 2004 but already the International Monetary Fund has signalled that a new agreement will be discussed on September 23.
- The company justified its refusal to rehire the contract workers by claiming that their work agreements had expired.
- The last collective agreement expired in July 2002 but a new contract has not been established despite extensive negotiations and mediation.
- The old collective agreement expired in May and talks began shortly thereafter.
- He has since been taken into custody by Indian authorities because his visa expired.
- At the end of all this, when the planning permission has expired, what will happen to the land at The Hoskers?
- ‘It was signed off before the old agreement had even expired,’ she said.
- When her initial six-month agreement expired, she renewed and, by the end of the first year, had exceeded her targets.
- You will of course be aware that unless the council decides otherwise, your Agreement will expire automatically on 31 March 2004 and no funding will be payable after then in any event.
Synonyms
run out, become invalid, become void, be no longer valid, lapse, cease, become obsolete
1. 1.1 (of a period of time) come to an end.
  （期限）终止
  the three-year period has expired
  三年的时间已经结束。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The statement said he did not intend to leave office before his term expires in another five years.
  His term expired at the end of this year's championship.
  When his six-year term expired, his appointment was not renewed and he left Sydney on October 22, 1831.
  That way he might leave the job when his term has expired with more allies than he has right now.
  However, he isn't worried that, with two months expired since he left Turf Moor, he is still to find employment.
  The National Conference president also predicted that he will not hand over reigns of power to Congress after his three year term expires in November 2005.
  He himself will retire from the company next year when his second five-year term expires.
  You were allowed to leave eight months before your term expired.
  T will recover the use of the property when S's 25-year term expires.
  There have been no indications on whether the team want him to stay beyond the summer of 2006 when his three-year term expires.
  After his 10-month term expired, he requested a one-year renewal.
  Nine days before his leave expired, on 5 August 1994, he applied for asylum.
  The hyper-realism of his early work, captured in the first four spy movies, is an ancient memory, a golden age now expired.
  The service costs US $10, and if the three-year period expires before the subscriber does, the customer can renew.
  Pilots were also informed that they will be required to pay the full €15,000 cost of the training if they leave the airline before the five years has expired.
  Second was the class of persons who had exceptional leave with a limit on duration, where that duration had not expired when they left and then returned to the United Kingdom.
  The caption of the photograph of each Nominating Committee member identifies the person's job title and location and the year her term expires.
  And yet today he faces a recall effort that could very well end his presidency two years before his term expires.
  The president, whose five-year term expires in February next year, is constitutionally barred from seeking another term.
  On payment of a dowry, the man enjoys full marital rights, with no ongoing responsibility for any resultant children once the stated term expires.
  It would offer temporary work cards to illegals already in the country, but workers must leave after the period expires.
2no object (of a person) die.
（人）死亡，断气
Example sentencesExamples
- One of my fantasies involves covering the room with strong perfumes through some gadget that kicks in a few hours after I've presumably expired.
- Two patients developed respiratory infection and expired during the hospital stay.
- Although Laura's exertions keep her warm, the Damps give poor Sophia ‘a galloping Consumption’, and she soon expires, too.
- If someone starves, a hero will give up their own food and die before letting that person expire.
- My father expired in 1973, when we were all minors.
- Igneous, who at times has been comical and brutal, transforms here, and when he finally expires, all alone but with love in his heart, it's a touching and sympathetic finale.
- If two doctors agree that the condition has reached the point of no return then it should be agreed to let the person expire with dignity.
- President Kennedy had been shot dead in Dallas a few hours before the writer expired, with the result that hardly any attention was paid to Huxley's achievements in the following day's newspapers.
- The window of the room will be opened as the dying person expires to allow the spirit to escape the confines of the worldly building.
- The mortality rate within the ghettos rose and people expired on the street.
- Given their age and infirmity lots of these people have since expired - naturally - over the years.
- I pity such detractors, because if their spirits were not massively moved by the tragedy of a great hero expiring on the battlefield, they must be blocks of stones.
- According to school legend they were taken to the sanatorium, where they would expire after a week or so without ever being able to utter another word.
- On the plus side, the fact that I'm here means I didn't expire in a blazing fireball.
- When I limited her to one suitcase for our England trip the woman almost expired.
- Our last Betamax player expired some ten years ago.
- Forensic accounting is often regarded in the same way as forensic medicine, a resource only called upon when the patient has expired.
Synonyms
die, pass away, pass on, decease, perish, depart this life, be no more, breathe one's last, draw one's last breath, meet one's end, meet one's death, meet one's maker, give up the ghost, go to the great beyond, cross the great divide, shuffle off this mortal coil, go the way of all flesh, go the way of the flesh, go to one's last resting place
3technical with object Exhale (air) from the lung.
〈技〉呼（气）
Example sentencesExamples
- The vocal cords vibrate when air is expired through the glottis, creating sound waves in the column of air within the pharynx, nose, and mouth.
- The crowd seemed suddenly lifeless, as if all wind had expired from their lungs.
- The drug is primarily metabolized by the lungs and expired as carbon dioxide.
- An index of alcohol intoxication was measured with a fuel-cell analyzer in air expired after breath was held for 15 sec.
- As the workload increased in the overhead exercise relative to the chest exercise, an increase in the quantity of air inspired and expired was observed.
Synonyms
breathe out, exhale, puff out, blow out, expel, emit

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French expirer, from Latin exspirare ‘breathe out’, from ex- ‘out’ + spirare ‘breathe’.

单词	expire
释义	Definition of expire in English: expire verb ɪkˈspʌɪəɛkˈspʌɪəˌɪkˈspaɪ(ə)r 1no object (of a document, authorization, or agreement) come to the end of the period of validity. （文件，授权书，协议）期满；成为无效；失效 his driving licence expired 他的驾驶执照过期了。 Example sentencesExamples An existing work agreement expires on August 14 and negotiations for a new one have broken down. Ex-patriots must make extra trips to the police station permit section if the documents often expire at different times. ‘It was signed off before the old agreement had even expired,’ she said. The two sides agreed to resume negotiations a few minutes before midnight June 25 when the old agreement expired. When her initial six-month agreement expired, she renewed and, by the end of the first year, had exceeded her targets. He has since been taken into custody by Indian authorities because his visa expired. The credit period extended by this Agreement shall expire in any event fifty-one weeks from the date of this Agreement. The old collective agreement expired in May and talks began shortly thereafter. The dairy price support program expires May 31, 2002. It has been negotiating a new enterprise agreement with the union since the last document expired in December, 1999. A maximum of five refills may be authorized; if refills are indicated, the prescription expires six months from the date written. The last collective agreement expired in July 2002 but a new contract has not been established despite extensive negotiations and mediation. If you hate your current provider the end of your contract seems like a lifetime away but if you love your provider, you probably don't even know when your subscriber agreement expires. At the end of all this, when the planning permission has expired, what will happen to the land at The Hoskers? The nearly 10,000 flight attendants have been working without a new contract since their old agreement expired at the end of 1996. You will of course be aware that unless the council decides otherwise, your Agreement will expire automatically on 31 March 2004 and no funding will be payable after then in any event. The company justified its refusal to rehire the contract workers by claiming that their work agreements had expired. The current five-year lease agreement expires in 2002. The agreement expires in September 2004 but already the International Monetary Fund has signalled that a new agreement will be discussed on September 23. ‘In this way, by 2011, when the 1961 Water Agreement expires, we will not need to renew it,’ he said. Synonyms run out, become invalid, become void, be no longer valid, lapse, cease, become obsolete end, finish, stop, come to an end, conclude, terminate, be over, be at an end 1.1 (of a period of time) come to an end. （期限）终止 the three-year period has expired 三年的时间已经结束。 Example sentencesExamples After his 10-month term expired, he requested a one-year renewal. The president, whose five-year term expires in February next year, is constitutionally barred from seeking another term. The caption of the photograph of each Nominating Committee member identifies the person's job title and location and the year her term expires. He himself will retire from the company next year when his second five-year term expires. On payment of a dowry, the man enjoys full marital rights, with no ongoing responsibility for any resultant children once the stated term expires. And yet today he faces a recall effort that could very well end his presidency two years before his term expires. You were allowed to leave eight months before your term expired. The service costs US $10, and if the three-year period expires before the subscriber does, the customer can renew. The hyper-realism of his early work, captured in the first four spy movies, is an ancient memory, a golden age now expired. However, he isn't worried that, with two months expired since he left Turf Moor, he is still to find employment. That way he might leave the job when his term has expired with more allies than he has right now. T will recover the use of the property when S's 25-year term expires. Pilots were also informed that they will be required to pay the full €15,000 cost of the training if they leave the airline before the five years has expired. It would offer temporary work cards to illegals already in the country, but workers must leave after the period expires. When his six-year term expired, his appointment was not renewed and he left Sydney on October 22, 1831. Nine days before his leave expired, on 5 August 1994, he applied for asylum. The National Conference president also predicted that he will not hand over reigns of power to Congress after his three year term expires in November 2005. There have been no indications on whether the team want him to stay beyond the summer of 2006 when his three-year term expires. His term expired at the end of this year's championship. Second was the class of persons who had exceptional leave with a limit on duration, where that duration had not expired when they left and then returned to the United Kingdom. The statement said he did not intend to leave office before his term expires in another five years. 2no object (of a person) die. （人）死亡，断气 the lady had expired bearing her lord a son Example sentencesExamples Although Laura's exertions keep her warm, the Damps give poor Sophia ‘a galloping Consumption’, and she soon expires, too. When I limited her to one suitcase for our England trip the woman almost expired. Igneous, who at times has been comical and brutal, transforms here, and when he finally expires, all alone but with love in his heart, it's a touching and sympathetic finale. One of my fantasies involves covering the room with strong perfumes through some gadget that kicks in a few hours after I've presumably expired. The mortality rate within the ghettos rose and people expired on the street. If two doctors agree that the condition has reached the point of no return then it should be agreed to let the person expire with dignity. Given their age and infirmity lots of these people have since expired - naturally - over the years. Our last Betamax player expired some ten years ago. My father expired in 1973, when we were all minors. The window of the room will be opened as the dying person expires to allow the spirit to escape the confines of the worldly building. On the plus side, the fact that I'm here means I didn't expire in a blazing fireball. According to school legend they were taken to the sanatorium, where they would expire after a week or so without ever being able to utter another word. Forensic accounting is often regarded in the same way as forensic medicine, a resource only called upon when the patient has expired. I pity such detractors, because if their spirits were not massively moved by the tragedy of a great hero expiring on the battlefield, they must be blocks of stones. President Kennedy had been shot dead in Dallas a few hours before the writer expired, with the result that hardly any attention was paid to Huxley's achievements in the following day's newspapers. Two patients developed respiratory infection and expired during the hospital stay. If someone starves, a hero will give up their own food and die before letting that person expire. Synonyms die, pass away/on, decease, perish, depart this life, be no more, breathe one's last, draw one's last breath, meet one's end, meet one's death, meet one's Maker, give up the ghost, go to the great beyond, cross the great divide, shuffle off this mortal coil, go the way of the/all flesh, go to one's last resting place informal kick the bucket, bite the dust, croak, conk out, buy it, turn up one's toes, cash in one's chips, go belly up British informal snuff it, peg out, pop one's clogs 3technical with object Exhale (air) from the lungs. 〈技〉呼（气） the volume of expired air Example sentencesExamples The drug is primarily metabolized by the lungs and expired as carbon dioxide. An index of alcohol intoxication was measured with a fuel-cell analyzer in air expired after breath was held for 15 sec. The crowd seemed suddenly lifeless, as if all wind had expired from their lungs. The vocal cords vibrate when air is expired through the glottis, creating sound waves in the column of air within the pharynx, nose, and mouth. As the workload increased in the overhead exercise relative to the chest exercise, an increase in the quantity of air inspired and expired was observed. Synonyms breathe out, exhale, puff out, blow out, expel, emit Origin Late Middle English: from Old French expirer, from Latin exspirare 'breathe out', from ex- 'out' + spirare 'breathe'. spirit from Middle English: Our word spirit is based on Latin spiritus ‘breath or spirit’, from spirare ‘to breathe’—the ancient Romans believed that the human soul had been ‘breathed’ into the body—the image is the same as ‘the breath of life’. The sense ‘strong distilled alcoholic drink’ comes from the use in alchemy of spirit to mean ‘a liquid essence extracted from some substance’. People sometimes say the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak when they have good intentions but yield to temptation and fail to live up to them. The source is the New Testament, where Jesus uses the phrase after finding his disciples asleep in the Garden of Gethsemane despite telling them that they should stay awake. Spirare forms the basis of numerous English words including aspire (mid 16th century) from adspirare ‘to breath upon, seek to reach’; conspire (Late Middle English) from conspirare ‘to breath together, agree’; expire (late 16th century) ‘to breath out’; inspire (Late Middle English) ‘breath into’ from the idea that a divine or outside power has inspired you; and perspire (mid 17th century) ‘to breath through’; and transpire (Late Middle English) ‘breath across. In English spirit was shortened to sprite (Middle English) which in turn developed sprightly (late 16th century). Rhymes acquire, admire, afire, applier, aspire, attire, ayah, backfire, barbwire, bemire, briar, buyer, byre, choir, conspire, crier, cryer, defier, denier, desire, dire, drier, dryer, dyer, enquire, entire, esquire, fire, flyer, friar, fryer, Gaia, gyre, hellfire, hire, hiya, ire, Isaiah, jambalaya, Jeremiah, Josiah, Kintyre, latria, liar, lyre, Maia, Maya, Mayer, messiah, mire, misfire, Nehemiah, Obadiah, papaya, pariah, peripeteia, perspire, playa, Praia, prior, pyre, quire, replier, scryer, shire, shyer, sire, skyer, Sophia, spire, squire, supplier, Surabaya, suspire, tier, tire, transpire, trier, tumble-dryer, tyre, Uriah, via, wire, Zechariah, Zedekiah, Zephaniah Definition of expire in US English: expire verbˌikˈspī(ə)rˌɪkˈspaɪ(ə)r 1no object (of a document, authorization, or agreement) cease to be valid, typically after a fixed period of time. （文件，授权书，协议）期满；成为无效；失效 the old contract had expired Example sentencesExamples ‘In this way, by 2011, when the 1961 Water Agreement expires, we will not need to renew it,’ he said. The credit period extended by this Agreement shall expire in any event fifty-one weeks from the date of this Agreement. The two sides agreed to resume negotiations a few minutes before midnight June 25 when the old agreement expired. The nearly 10,000 flight attendants have been working without a new contract since their old agreement expired at the end of 1996. It has been negotiating a new enterprise agreement with the union since the last document expired in December, 1999. If you hate your current provider the end of your contract seems like a lifetime away but if you love your provider, you probably don't even know when your subscriber agreement expires. A maximum of five refills may be authorized; if refills are indicated, the prescription expires six months from the date written. The current five-year lease agreement expires in 2002. The dairy price support program expires May 31, 2002. Ex-patriots must make extra trips to the police station permit section if the documents often expire at different times. An existing work agreement expires on August 14 and negotiations for a new one have broken down. The agreement expires in September 2004 but already the International Monetary Fund has signalled that a new agreement will be discussed on September 23. The company justified its refusal to rehire the contract workers by claiming that their work agreements had expired. The last collective agreement expired in July 2002 but a new contract has not been established despite extensive negotiations and mediation. The old collective agreement expired in May and talks began shortly thereafter. He has since been taken into custody by Indian authorities because his visa expired. At the end of all this, when the planning permission has expired, what will happen to the land at The Hoskers? ‘It was signed off before the old agreement had even expired,’ she said. When her initial six-month agreement expired, she renewed and, by the end of the first year, had exceeded her targets. You will of course be aware that unless the council decides otherwise, your Agreement will expire automatically on 31 March 2004 and no funding will be payable after then in any event. Synonyms run out, become invalid, become void, be no longer valid, lapse, cease, become obsolete 1.1 (of a period of time) come to an end. （期限）终止 the three-year period has expired 三年的时间已经结束。 Example sentencesExamples The statement said he did not intend to leave office before his term expires in another five years. His term expired at the end of this year's championship. When his six-year term expired, his appointment was not renewed and he left Sydney on October 22, 1831. That way he might leave the job when his term has expired with more allies than he has right now. However, he isn't worried that, with two months expired since he left Turf Moor, he is still to find employment. The National Conference president also predicted that he will not hand over reigns of power to Congress after his three year term expires in November 2005. He himself will retire from the company next year when his second five-year term expires. You were allowed to leave eight months before your term expired. T will recover the use of the property when S's 25-year term expires. There have been no indications on whether the team want him to stay beyond the summer of 2006 when his three-year term expires. After his 10-month term expired, he requested a one-year renewal. Nine days before his leave expired, on 5 August 1994, he applied for asylum. The hyper-realism of his early work, captured in the first four spy movies, is an ancient memory, a golden age now expired. The service costs US $10, and if the three-year period expires before the subscriber does, the customer can renew. Pilots were also informed that they will be required to pay the full €15,000 cost of the training if they leave the airline before the five years has expired. Second was the class of persons who had exceptional leave with a limit on duration, where that duration had not expired when they left and then returned to the United Kingdom. The caption of the photograph of each Nominating Committee member identifies the person's job title and location and the year her term expires. And yet today he faces a recall effort that could very well end his presidency two years before his term expires. The president, whose five-year term expires in February next year, is constitutionally barred from seeking another term. On payment of a dowry, the man enjoys full marital rights, with no ongoing responsibility for any resultant children once the stated term expires. It would offer temporary work cards to illegals already in the country, but workers must leave after the period expires. 2no object (of a person) die. （人）死亡，断气 Example sentencesExamples One of my fantasies involves covering the room with strong perfumes through some gadget that kicks in a few hours after I've presumably expired. Two patients developed respiratory infection and expired during the hospital stay. Although Laura's exertions keep her warm, the Damps give poor Sophia ‘a galloping Consumption’, and she soon expires, too. If someone starves, a hero will give up their own food and die before letting that person expire. My father expired in 1973, when we were all minors. Igneous, who at times has been comical and brutal, transforms here, and when he finally expires, all alone but with love in his heart, it's a touching and sympathetic finale. If two doctors agree that the condition has reached the point of no return then it should be agreed to let the person expire with dignity. President Kennedy had been shot dead in Dallas a few hours before the writer expired, with the result that hardly any attention was paid to Huxley's achievements in the following day's newspapers. The window of the room will be opened as the dying person expires to allow the spirit to escape the confines of the worldly building. The mortality rate within the ghettos rose and people expired on the street. Given their age and infirmity lots of these people have since expired - naturally - over the years. I pity such detractors, because if their spirits were not massively moved by the tragedy of a great hero expiring on the battlefield, they must be blocks of stones. According to school legend they were taken to the sanatorium, where they would expire after a week or so without ever being able to utter another word. On the plus side, the fact that I'm here means I didn't expire in a blazing fireball. When I limited her to one suitcase for our England trip the woman almost expired. Our last Betamax player expired some ten years ago. Forensic accounting is often regarded in the same way as forensic medicine, a resource only called upon when the patient has expired. Synonyms die, pass away, pass on, decease, perish, depart this life, be no more, breathe one's last, draw one's last breath, meet one's end, meet one's death, meet one's maker, give up the ghost, go to the great beyond, cross the great divide, shuffle off this mortal coil, go the way of all flesh, go the way of the flesh, go to one's last resting place 3technical with object Exhale (air) from the lung. 〈技〉呼（气） Example sentencesExamples The vocal cords vibrate when air is expired through the glottis, creating sound waves in the column of air within the pharynx, nose, and mouth. The crowd seemed suddenly lifeless, as if all wind had expired from their lungs. The drug is primarily metabolized by the lungs and expired as carbon dioxide. An index of alcohol intoxication was measured with a fuel-cell analyzer in air expired after breath was held for 15 sec. As the workload increased in the overhead exercise relative to the chest exercise, an increase in the quantity of air inspired and expired was observed. Synonyms breathe out, exhale, puff out, blow out, expel, emit Origin Late Middle English: from Old French expirer, from Latin exspirare ‘breathe out’, from ex- ‘out’ + spirare ‘breathe’.
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