A convict whose term of sentence has expired.
there is no Act to prevent an expiree going away from the colony
Example sentencesExamples
- Ship owners were prohibited from carrying expirees back to England.
- The judge implicitly admits that even after completing the sentence of transportation, the expiree was never exactly a free man.
- Official policy intended to bar the return of expirees to England.
- A committee of enquiry into the security of life and property in Sydney identified the twin evils of poor discipline and the influx of Norfolk Island expirees to the barracks.
- The expiree Robert Sparks was the successful tenderer for the building of two stone navigational obelisks.