expiration date
Spoilage cutoff time
An expiration date is the date after which something is no longer valid, safe, or effective.
Food has expiration dates indicating when it should be consumed.
Medications, coupons, and credit cards expire.
The term applies figuratively to relationships or arrangements that won't last: Our partnership has an expiration date.
Also called expiry date, especially in British English.
- best beforeFood freshness deadline
- shelf lifeUsable storage duration
- perishableProne to decay
- deadlineTime limit for completion
- countdownBackward enumeration to zero
ephemerality · transience · spoilage · impermanence · inevitability · food safety · statute of limitations · freshness · grace period · mortality · finality · limited time · rotten · obsolescence · outdated · warranty · label · license
- pharmacypharmacist, pharmacy, prescription, dispensing, prescriptions
- credit cardscredit card, loyalty card, cardholder, cashback offers, card number
- debit cardsPIN number, contactless, card number, CVV, prepaid debit
- expiration datesuse by, sell by, best before, best by, shelf life
- food labelsnutrition facts, ingredient list, ingredients, ingredients list, calories
- product labelsingredient list, warning labels, safety labels, warning label, nutrition facts
expiration datecreation date
When something was first made
start date · issue date · harvest date · effective date · release date
expiration dateeternity
Boundless temporal existence
permanence · immortality · timelessness · perpetuity · shelf-stable
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