expiration date

noun

1. the last date that a product, as food, should be used before it is considered spoiled or ineffective, usually specified on the label or package.

Example Sentences

Lopez, the sheriff’s spokesman, also noted that the home addresses are included in the county’s dispatch system with an expiration date, so the information disappears past a certain point.

From Voice of San Diego

“We’re all born with an expiration date,” Sears bemoans, which is why humans need to make the best use of this time.

From Washington Post

His expiration date should have been up soon after his diagnosis that August, but in the ensuing years, I never heard a word about Barry slowing down.

From Outside Online

Each year, as much as $3 billion in cards go unused, languishing in wallets past the expiration date and never to be cashed in, according to a CBS News analysis of Mercator Advisory Group data.

From Fortune

When considering a refurbished machine or flash sale, you want to double-check the model and the expiration date of that model’s updates.

From Popular-Science

Such prescriptions have no expiration date, and were swallowed as easily in 1974 as in 1934 or 2014.

From The Daily Beast

And thanks for all the music that came with no expiration date.

From The Daily Beast

Kerry himself recently identified an expiration date for the two-state solution within “a year to year-and-a-half to two years.”

From The Daily Beast

When does a meme officially jump the shark and reach its expiration date?

From The Daily Beast

Coupled with this is the fact that the two-state solution has no expiration date.

From The Daily Beast