expiree
Noun
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Noun
expiree (plural expirees)
- (Australia, historical) In penal colonies of early Australia, a convict whose sentence had been served.
- 1984, Lloyd Evans, Paul Llewellyn Nicholls, Convicts and Colonial Society, 1788-1868, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=CFIFAQAAIAAJ&q=%22expiree%22|%22expirees%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22expiree%22|%22expirees%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_TpKT_aPEMipiAefiNGODg&redir_esc=y page 276],
- According to the census of 1870 the number of men still under the charge of the authorities is about four thousand, including those still in confinement; expirees being classed as free men.
- 1984, Lloyd Evans, Paul Llewellyn Nicholls, Convicts and Colonial Society, 1788-1868, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=CFIFAQAAIAAJ&q=%22expiree%22|%22expirees%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22expiree%22|%22expirees%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_TpKT_aPEMipiAefiNGODg&redir_esc=y page 276],
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