- 1[intransitive] (of a document, an agreement, etc.) to be no longer valid because the period of time for which it could be used has ended synonym run out When does your driver's license expire? Our lease on the house expires next month.
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- 2[intransitive] (of a period of time, especially one during which someone holds a position of authority) to end His term of office expires at the end of June.
- 3[intransitive] (literary) to die see unexpired
expire
verbNAmE//ɪkˈspaɪər//
Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they expire he / she / it expires
past simple expired
-ing form expiring
adjective an expired passportSee expire in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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