expiration date

American  

noun

• expiration dates
  plural

1. the last date that a product, as food, should be used before it is considered spoiled or ineffective, usually specified on the label or package.

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Noun Inflected Forms

• expiration dates
  plural

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expiration date

Douglass therefore saw not simply 20 years of protection but a constitutional expiration date.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Federal officials also ordered California’s Department of Motor Vehicles to cancel about 13,000 licenses due to a clerical error that allowed them to remain valid past a work permit’s expiration date.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

For the stocks listed in this table, that would mean buying the straddles expiring on Aug. 21, or the next nearest date if that expiration date doesn’t exist for a particular stock.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

This can include damage in transport, passing the expiration date, and unused doses from multi-dose vials, but a major factor are failures in the cold chain.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

A container of milk in a U.S. supermarket bears only one date: the expiration date.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond