expireen.
/ɛkˌspʌɪ(ə)ˈriː/, U.S. /ˌɛkspaɪ(ə)ˈri/, Australian English /ˌekspaɪ(ə)ˈriː/ Chiefly Australian.
One whose term of punishment has expired; an ex-convict. Also attributive.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun] > former convict
freeman1791
expiree1802
old hand1826
emancipist1827
emancipatist1852
expirer1862
ex-convict1867
1802 J. Bentham Wks. (1843) xi. 123 As to returns to England, the idea of preventing them on the part of expirees..is now disclaimed.
1838 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 5 781 The free emigrants of South Australia, and the emancipists and expirees of Van Dieman's Land.
1847 J. D. Lang Cooksland ix. 271 Very many of their servants, being old hands or Expiree convicts from New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, are thoroughly unprincipled men.
1863 London Rev. 3 Jan. 4/2 Sir Walter Crofton..traces every expiree where he can.
1883 E. M. Curr Recoll. Squatting Victoria v. 40 Wages were high, and labourers (almost all old gaol-birds and expiree convicts) exceedingly independent and rowdy.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 21 Oct. 1/9 Convicts in New Caledonia, who may be expected to overflow into Victoria either as fugitives or expirees.
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