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 expiration [`ɛkspə'reʃən]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 终止, 满期, 呼出, 呼气

[医] 呼[气], 断气, 死亡

[经] 满期, 届期, 截止


  1. The expiration of contract is coming.
    合同快到期了。
  2. When is the expiration of your driving license?
    你的驾驶执照何时到期?
  3. An instrument for measuring the force or volume of inspiration or expiration in the lungs.
    呼吸气量测定器;肺活量计用以测量肺部吸入或呼出空气的力量或体积的一种仪器


expiration
[ noun ]
  1. a coming to an end of a contract period

  2. <noun.time>
    the expiry of his driver's license
  3. euphemistic expressions for death

  4. <noun.event>
    thousands mourned his passing
  5. the act of expelling air from the lungs

  6. <noun.act>


Expiration \Ex`pi*ra"tion\, n. [L. expiratio,exspiratio: cf. F.
expiration. See {Expire}.]
1. The act of expiring; as:
(a) (Physiol.) The act or process of breathing out, or
forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth;
as, respiration consists of inspiration and
expiration; -- opposed to {inspiration}.
(b) Emission of volatile matter; exhalation.

The true cause of cold is an expiration from the
globe of the earth. --Bacon.
(c) The last emission of breath; death. ``The groan of
expiration.'' --Rambler.
(d) A coming to a close; cessation; extinction;
termination; end.

Before the expiration of thy time. --Shak.

2. That which is expired; matter breathed forth; that which
is produced by breathing out, as a sound.

The aspirate ``he,'' which is . . . a gentle
expiration. --G. Sharp.

  1. The original expiration date was Feb. 13.
  2. The Beazer group said today it would extend its $60-a-share offer, launched March 3, from its scheduled expiration at midnight today until midnight April 15.
  3. The recalled cans and packets bear an expiration date of between August 1988 and October 1991: from "USEBY 8 88" through "EXP 1 OCT 91," or have the following batch codes: MKH81, MKH82, MLH46, and MLH47.
  4. He referred to last Friday's triple witching, or the same-day expiration of stock-index futures and options and individual stock options.
  5. William Brodsky, president of the Chicago Merc, says, "The June expiration may not mark an end to the changes.
  6. But he added the firm "always would respect the direction of the American Stock Exchange and, by extension, the Tokyo Stock Exchange." Existing warrants would continue to trade until their expiration.
  7. Kohlberg Kravis on Monday extended the tender offer expiration date from this Friday to Dec. 13, thereby keeping the structure of that offer in place in case it wins the bidding contest.
  8. Stock-index futures analysts at Kidder, Peabody & Co. say traders nervous about the expiration have already rolled out of the expiring June contract and into the September contract.
  9. Some big institutional investors are trying to get out of the June S&P 500 contract and into the September contract before next Friday's quarterly expiration of stock-index futures and options, analysts said.
  10. The CBOT, backed by the CFTC, felt these actions had endangered its ability to fulfill its legal mandate to conduct an orderly market as the July contract neared expiration.
  11. While the decline may result from the expiration of GM's incentives, rather than from some new and more severe concern, it nonetheless takes some of the luster off GM's robust sales last month.
  12. Analyzing car sales has become as much an exercise in tracking incentive-program expiration dates as an exercise in measuring broader economic trends.
  13. Usually, the number of contracts outstanding for a month shrinks as the contract nears expiration, so price swings become more volatile.
  14. The other half of the bill's financing would come largely from extending two existing laws, both of which were expected to be continued after their scheduled expiration date in any case.
  15. Mr. Abboud said that he would expect to close the First City bailout several days following the expiration of the April 12 deadline.
  16. The expiration date could be extended.
  17. General Refractories Co. said a company controlled by its chairman extended the Thursday expiration of an offer to take the Philadelphia concern private for $20.50 a share, or $38.2 million.
  18. Moreover, if Greek and American negotiators are unable to reach agreement, the present accord gives the United States 17 months after its expiration to dismantle the bases.
  19. Nomad said that as of the close of business Tuesday, its previous expiration date, 4,585,000 of Damon's shares had been tendered and weren't withdrawn.
  20. Today's pending expiration of the February contract may have helped firm prices, according to Dow Jones International Petroleum Report.
  21. Friday marks the expiration of the December stock-index futures contract.
  22. Sell pressure is also expected to be strong next week as many investors are likely to unwind their September futures contracts ahead of the expiration, rather than rolling them over to December.
  23. Based on that volume, the dual trading prohibition would probably apply to the contracts that are nearing expiration in the pits that trade futures contracts for financial and currency instruments such as the yen and the Swiss franc.
  24. Merrill will redeem the warrants at expiration or anytime sooner at the option of holders.
  25. Oxdon said it asked Steinberg's board to ask Socanav to extend its bid's expiration date and not to take and pay for any shares tendered to its offer until after holders can vote on the merger proposal.
  26. The new tax law reduced the credit, which is a big break for high-technology companies and popular among lawmakers, to 20% from 25% and set the expiration date.
  27. The New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange adopted new settlement procedures aimed at curbing stock-price volatility in the June 19 expiration of stock-related futures and options contracts.
  28. Terms of the offer set a Wednesday evening expiration time and Webb did not plan to respond, said company spokesman Ernie East.
  29. "We are in one of those phases where you are going to get a lot of volatile expiration action," said Donald Selkin, head of stock-index research at Prudential-Bache Securities.
  30. Amsterdam's rally came on a firmer dollar and the expiration of options.
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