"sell-by date" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Audio: En-au-sell-by date.ogg [Australia] Forms: sell-by dates [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} sell-by date (plural sell-by dates)
  1. The final date on which a perishable product can be legally sold to the public. Translations (final date on which a product can be sold): data de caducitat [feminine] (Catalan), sidste salgsdato (Danish), Mindesthaltbarkeitsdatum [neuter] (German), MHD (German), Verfallsdatum [neuter] (German), spriocdháta díola [masculine] (Irish), data di scadenza [feminine] (Italian), (包装食品などの)販売有効期限の日付 (Japanese), 유통 기한 (alt: 상품의) (Korean), siste salgsdato [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), fecha de caducidad [feminine] (Spanish), fecha de vencimiento [feminine] (Spanish), bäst före-datum [neuter] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-sell-by_date-en-noun-N53X~VC4 Disambiguation of 'final date on which a product can be sold': 92 8
  2. (idiomatic, by extension) Used to indicate that something, or someone, is old and out of date. Tags: broadly, idiomatic
    Sense id: en-sell-by_date-en-noun-ikdr4UV1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 73
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: expiration date, expiry date, shelf life, use-by date, due date, best-before date Coordinate_terms: best-before date, best-by date, use-by date, expiration date, expiry date, issue date

Inflected forms

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          "text": "September 9, 2017 - Schlock Mercenary\nManifold: This is not a team, Petey. This is just another mass grave.\nEwin: Eeew. What's the sell-by date on that manifold? I think it's gone bad."
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