Higher courts, including the Supreme Court had refused to intercede, and the stay was to expire tonight.
The temporary reduction of Social Security payroll taxes was allowed to expire in early 2013.
Those negotiations are set to expire at the end of November.
Advocates stress that vets would suffer if the program were to expire in September.
Patents, may I remind you, expire after 20 years, but copyrights to recordings can be enforced for a century or more.
Or if some victim must expire, strike here, and I will thank thee.
The corporal's leave did not expire till the evening of the following day.
He was hunted like a wild beast, till ready to expire with fatigue.
Rosseter's lease of the building was to expire in the following year.
Mr. Adams's term of service in the Senate was to expire on March 3, 1809.
c.1400, "to die," from Middle French expirer (12c.) "expire, elapse," from Latin expirare/exspirare "breathe out, breathe one's last, die," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + spirare "to breathe" (see spirit). "Die" is the older sense in English; that of "breathe out" is first attested 1580s. Of laws, patents, treaties, etc., mid-15c. Related: Expired; expiring.
expire ex·pire (ĭk-spīr')
v. ex·pired, ex·pir·ing, ex·pires
To breathe one's last breath; die.
To exhale.
