Talk:expiry
Latest comment: 5 years ago by Equinox in topic Possible missing sense
Really obsolete?
editWhy is this marked as obsolete? I think it's a very current word (e.g. credit card expiry (date)).
- Probably someone who only knows US English, who thought it sounded dated. Of course, perfectly current. Robert Ullmann 16:03, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
Possible missing sense
edit- 1853, The Free Church Magazine
- Several of the shepherds were expiries — convicts whose term of banishment had ended, and who preferred spending the rest of their lives in Port Philip to returning home.