expiry date

When it ends

An expiry date is the date after which something is no longer valid or safe to use.

Food has expiry dates indicating when it should be consumed; medications, credit cards, and passports have them too.

Check the expiry date before you eat that yogurt.

British equivalent of American *expiration date*.

Opposites
temporal lifecycle endpoints

expiry datecreation date

When something was first made

harvest date · start date · issue date · effective date

validity status

expiry dateeffective date

When something takes force

issue date

temporal permanence

expiry dateperpetual

Lasting without interruption

timeless · non-perishable · shelf-stable · everlasting · open-ended

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