Expiree
Full definition of expiree
Noun
- (Australia, historical) In penal colonies of early Australia, a convict whose sentence had been served.
[1916, Ernest Scott, A Short History of Australia, Chapter V, http://gutenberg.net.au/pgaus.html#scott.] - 1984, Lloyd Evans, Paul Llewellyn Nicholls, Convicts and Colonial Society, 1788-1868, %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.
- 1985, University of Western Australia, Westerly, Volume 30, %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 248,Most of them secured a husband within a year or so, but more remarkable is the fact that expirees competed very successfully against the colonial boys for brides. This was despite the knowledge that a woman who married an expiree lost her claim to respectability.
- 1995, Royal Australian Historical Society, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Volume 81, %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 37,Many old expirees received terminal or geriatric care in the Society′s Asylum, but there was a gap between the expiration of their sentences and their requiring terminal care during which time they depended upon their own resources.
