To expire on a previously established date, as a statutory provision, To provide for the expiration of (a program or agency) by means of a sunset provision, verb_ business, politics, transitive To phase out, adjective_ Law Providing for an automatic expiration, providing for termination, of a declining industry or technology, noun_ the daily event of the sun sinking below the horizon, attributively Having a set termination date, The time of day when the sun disappears below the western horizon

The act of breathing out; exhalation, The act of coming to a close; termination, That which is expired; matter breathed forth; that which is produced by breathing out, as a sound

A deserving; that which makes one deserving of reward or punishment; merit or demerit; good conferred, or evil inflicted, which merits an equivalent return_ as, to reward or punish men according to their deserts, arid land with little or no vegetation, That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit, intransitive verb_ To abandon a service without leave; to quit military service without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to abscond, transitive verb_ To leave (especially something which one should stay by and support); to leave in the lurch; to abandon; to forsake; -- implying blame, except sometimes when used of localities, adjective_ Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary, (Bot) the assemblage of plants growing naturally in a desert, or in a dry and apparently unproductive place