a convict whose term of sentencehad expired.
1852. G. C. Mundy, `Our Antipodes' (ed. 1885), p. 107:
«A hireling convict – emancipist, expiree, or ticket of leave.»
See expiree
1847. J. D. Lang, `Cooksland,' p. 271:
«Very many of their servants, being old hands or expireeconvicts from New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, arethoroughly unprincipled men.»
1883. E. M. Curr, `Recollections of Squatting inVictoria' (1841-1351), p. 40:
«Hiring men in Melbourne in 1841 was not by any means anagreeable job, as wages were high, and labourers (almost allold gaol-birds and expiree convicts) exceedingly independentand rowdy.»