(something) expires (sometime)

Many contracts, licenses, memberships, and subscriptions have an "end date". This end date is called the "expiration date". We say that the contract, etc. "expires" on that date. After that date, we say that it "has expired" or "is expired".

For example:

When does your passport expire?

I forgot to pay the bill, so our renter's insurance expired.

This phrase appears in these lessons: