staledate

v. intransitive, to expire; to be unused or unredeemed before a certain date; transitive, to set a termination, use-by, or expiration date on something. Subjects: English

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Citations: 1943 Reno Evening Gazette (Nev.) (Sept. 9) “Mineral County Grand Jury Files Investigation Report” (in Hawthorne) p. 9: The general manager should…realize cash wherever possible for all stale-dated and other checks. 1978 Roger C. Gibson Globe and Mail (Toronto, Can.) (Apr. 22) “Incorporating a small business could mean saving in tax dollars” p. B1: If the loss cannot be fully utilized to reduce income of the corporation in other years (the previous year and the five subsequent years if it is a non-capital loss) the loss will become stale-dated. 1986 Pat Fenner St. Petersburg Times (Florida) (Dec. 18) “Series: Times Action” p. 2: However, that check has stale-dated, and another check for $15 will be issued to the provider on a priority basis 1995 Steven Alfano Corporate Cashflow Magazine (Aug. 1) “The re-engineered treasury: the pros and cons of outsourcing check issuance” vol. 16, no. 8, p. 24: “Stale dating.” (Checks are returned unpaid if outstanding beyond a specified number of days.) 1996 Joey Slinger Toronto Star (Can.) (July 18) “Eggs-actly! It’s just Big Brotherism” p. A2: Isn’t stale-dating each individual egg an extreme indication of how regulation-happy we’re getting. 1999 Business Wire (Sept. 22) “Zydacron and Tokyo Broadcasting System Revolutionize Live Broadcasting” (in Manchester, N.H): TBS hoped to reduce or eliminate the high cost of remote satellite broadcasts and to avoid the stale dating inherent in studio weather information. 2005 Cory Doctorow Boing Boing (Jan. 25) “Why do newspapers charge for yesterday’s news?”: The NYT often does an extraordinary job of covering the facts, but it doesn’t matter a whit to posterity if a link to that job will staledate in a month.

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