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contract will expire vs contract will be expired

When citing the date on which a contract runs out, use the phrase "contract will expire."
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Last updated: March 20, 2019

contract will expire

This phrase is correct.

"Contract will expire" is used to tell others when an agreement is no longer in effect. It is usually followed by a word or phrase that indicates date or time.

Some examples from our editors:

  • The contract will expire on June 30, 2099.
  • The supplier's contract with the retail outlet will expire next year.
  • My contract with my current employer will expire at the end of the fiscal year, so I am looking for a new opportunity.
  • The contract will expire in March 2007 and a new call for tender was published recently.
  • The law is on our side, because our contracts will expire next year.
  • Finally, the Danish government argues that the loss-making contracts will expire in 2006 at the latest and will subsequently be subject to public tenders open to all players on the market.
  • The short-term supply contract for 2010 will expire on 20 October, and the signing of a contract for increased supplies from Russia is dependent on the renegotiation of the international agreement concluded in 1993.
  • My contract expires in six months.
  • Do what you want when the contract expires.
  • Right, seven hours before your contract expires.
  • It corresponds to a fixed date on which a credit derivative contract expires.
  • Finally, it must not be forgotten that BAVARIA is under the obligation to pay the ground rent even after the general management contract expires.
  • The parties may not derogate from Articles 17 and 18 to the detriment of the commercial agent before the agency contract expires.
  • The contract expires this month and what?
  • In many cases players may now, when their contract expires, change employer without their club receiving any financial compensation apart from a small reimbursement for training.
  • As a result of compulsory periodic tendering for operators, the people who work there could lose their jobs when the contract expires.
  • If the contract expires without delivery, the carrying amount of the financial liability is reclassified to equity.
  • At issue was whether the transaction would have an adverse effect on these customers when the long term contract expires.
  • My contract expires in a year.
  • Don't forget, boys, this is the 10th, the day your contract expires.
  • They'll never make it. Thirty seconds more and their contract expires.
  • This proposal is intended to create the necessary legal framework for this temporary solution, which should be implemented and become operational at the latest on the date upon which the current SISNET contract expires.
  • All the staff are employed under contracts which expire on 31 December 2009.

Some alternatives from our editors:

  • agreement will expire
  • contract will terminate

contract will be expired

This phrase is not correct. Don't use it.

"Contract will expire" is used when explaining the date on which an agreement terminates.
  • The rental contract expired in June 2009.
  • In December 2005 ESPEL's contract expired and the work has not so far been entrusted to a new contractor.
  • Because of disputes over the valuation of the land, the project never started and the contract expired in December 2006.
  • When the contract expired, without any invitation to tender having been issued, the contract with Delcomar was extended.
  • Danny was hired straight out of his PHD program, got four commendations, three raises, and re-upped after his first contract expired.
  • Since midnight last night, our contract has expired.
  • He'll leave us when his contract will have expired.
  • Your contract has expired, and you too.
  • From the outset it was clear that these competitions were aimed at regularising temporary staff in OLAF in order to avoid a loss of valuable expertise in OLAF once the TA contracts expired, and as a secondary aim at recruiting staff from new Member States.
  • Thus, it left unprotected thousands of contract workers whose contracts had expired earlier, although the directive had already come into force and the deadline for transposition had already passed.
  • The amendments should apply as from 1 January 2005, when some of the initial contracts might have expired.
  • Furthermore, 131 short-term contracts were issued during 2009 (in addition to some contract extensions from 2008) to cover for absences of less than one year, while 111 short-term contracts expired in the course of the year.
  • This contract expired on 31 December 2005; at the time of the IFB audit in the second half of 2002, the contract was generating annual losses [...] [7].
  • the quantities of cheeses for which storage contracts expired during the month in question, broken down by the categories listed in point (a);
  • The applicant also alleges infringement of the general principle of equal treatment by reference to the fact that all the temporary and auxiliary agents of OIB, whose contracts expired on 1 May 2004, remained in OIB beyond that date with the exception of the applicant.
  • I thought your contract with Carlos Solano expired?
  • An examination of the tendering procedures showed various anomalies: use of expired contracts and irregular extensions of existing contracts.
  • The current 2004 transfer regulations introduce compensation rules for contract players under the age of 23, even where the contract period has expired.
  • If the Invalidity Committee finds that these conditions are no longer fulfilled, the contract staff member shall resume service with the Agency, providing his contract has not expired.
  • If the Invalidity Committee finds that these conditions are no longer fulfilled, the contract staff member shall resume service with the institution, providing his contract has not expired.

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