EXPIRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does expiry mean? 

• EXPIRY (noun)
  The noun EXPIRY has 2 senses:

1. a coming to an end of a contract period

2. the event of dying or departure from life

  Familiarity information: EXPIRY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXPIRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A coming to an end of a contract period

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

expiration; expiry; termination

Context example:

the expiry of his driver's license

Hypernyms ("expiry" is a kind of...):

end; ending (the point in time at which something ends)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The event of dying or departure from life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

death; decease; expiry

Context example:

upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren

Hypernyms ("expiry" is a kind of...):

alteration; change; modification (an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "expiry"):

fatality; human death (a death resulting from an accident or a disaster)

martyrdom (death that is imposed because of the person's adherence of a religious faith or cause)

megadeath (the death of a million people)

departure; exit; expiration; going; loss; passing; release (euphemistic expressions for death)

wrongful death (a death that results from a wrongful act or from negligence; a death that can serve as the basis for a civil action for damages on behalf of the dead person's family or heirs)

Instance hyponyms:

Crucifixion (the death of Jesus by crucifixion)