"sell-by date" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-sell-by date.ogg 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 (idiomatic, by extension) Used to indicate that something, or someone, is old and out of date.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, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Korean translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 73 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 17 83 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 16 84 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 11 89 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 14 86 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 8 92 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 14 86 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 14 86 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 11 89 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 11 89 Disambiguation of Terms with Korean translations: 14 86 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 16 84 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 8 92 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 12 88
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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