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English Dictionary: expiry by the DICT Development Group
2 results for expiry
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
expiry
n
  1. a coming to an end of a contract period; "the expiry of his driver's license"
    Synonym(s): termination, expiration, expiry
  2. the event of dying or departure from life; "her death came as a terrible shock"; "upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren"
    Synonym(s): death, decease, expiry
    Antonym(s): birth, nascence, nascency, nativity
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Expiry \Ex"pi*ry\, n.
      Expiration.
  
               He had to leave at the expiry of the term. --Lamb.
  
               The Parliament . . . now approaching the expiry of its
               legal term.                                             --J. Morley.
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