The standard British, Australian, and New Zealand English word for the end, termination, or lapse of something — a contract, a deadline, a passport, a warranty.
I've checked the Toyota deals. They have updated their expired offers, but haven't updated the expiry date! #NCDIreland
Then one rule change, one layoff, or one visa delay can make everything feel temporary again. That is a horrible way to live. And it is also bad business. If a country wants the best talent, it cannot treat people l…
The standard British, Australian, and New Zealand English word for the end, termination, or lapse of something — a contract, a deadline, a passport, a warranty. Where American English almost always says 'expiration,' Commonwealth English strongly prefers 'expiry.' It also functions as a formal or literary euphemism for death, as in 'following his expiry.' You'll see it constantly on food packaging, medication labels, and legal documents across the UK and its former territories.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(UK) The date on which something runs out or expires and becomes out of date, in many cases requiring renewal.
(Australia, historical) In penal colonies of early Australia, a convict whose sentence had been served.
(law, chiefly, UK) Of legislation or an enactment: no longer in force due to all of its provisions having expired or been completed.
What's something you wish you'd been monitoring before it bit you? Domain expiry, cron drift, cert chain order, something weirder?
Check the expiry date on the cream before you use it — I bought that months ago.
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(British, NZ, AU) Death.
“I've checked the Toyota deals. They have updated their expired offers, but haven't updated the expiry date! #NCDIreland”
“Then one rule change, one layoff, or one visa delay can make everything feel temporary again. That is a horrible way to live. And it is also bad business. If a country wants the best talent, it cannot treat people like borrowed labour with an expiry date.”
“What's something you wish you'd been monitoring before it bit you? Domain expiry, cron drift, cert chain order, something weirder?”
“⭐️ Basically build your own workflows on top of Nuelink To grab your API token: Go to Nuelink> Settings > API >Create New Token > set a name & expiry date > Generate > Copy. P.S. you can start building with it right now, docs are up too: docs.nuelink...”
“I'm sorry but you have a Serious Loading Expiry Fault. Please call AVADirect on 0873 880 6730”
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(British, NZ, AU) End; termination; expiration.
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