Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

expiration date

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.47 in modern English

Syllables: ex-pi-ra-tion -date
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A date by which an object either should not be used or loses its value, depending upon the item.

Example Sentences

"credit card expiration date"
"Well, in the mercy of God we are normally unaware of our personal expiration date."
"You have an expiration date, and despite your wanting to claim control over life circumstances, you're not entitled to know when your expiration date will be."
"If my expiration date is set, then it doesn't matter if I smoke or eat a gallon of ice cream a day; however, the quality of my life between now and that point will be improved considerably by eating well and taking good care of myself."
"It is modern medicine's best guess, a 50/50 shot, a coin flip of a lifespan. I would not want to know my expiration date or median survival."

Inflected Forms

expiration dates (plural) exp. date (alternative, abbreviation)

Phrases

sexpiration date

Frequently Paired Words

expire best-by date issue date sell-by date use-by date

Synonyms

expiry expiry date EXP

Questions

What does expiration date mean?: A date by which an object either should not be used or loses its value, depending upon the item.

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