expiry

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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From expire + -y.

At the expiry of this time they must withdraw to their houses: Ave Maria is in many cases the retiring hour. — Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber : $b or, The influence of Romanism on trade, justice, and knowledge, J. A. (James Aitken) Wylie
She begged the gods, after his death, that but three hours’ converse with him might be allowed her; the request was granted; and when her dead husband, at the expiry of the time, returned to the world of shades, she bore him company. — The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems, Geoffrey Chaucer
The beginning of that phase coincided, as it so happened, with the expiry of the period during which the leaders of the Johannesburg rising of 1895 had promised to abstain from interference in politics, and the incident out of which it grew was the presentation to the Queen (in March 1899), through the High Commissioner, of a petition from a large number of British residents on the Witwatersrand complaining of the position in which they found themselves. — Impressions of South Africa, James Bryce, Viscount Bryce

termination, expiration

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