sell-by date

1. 1.

   a date stamped on perishable produce indicating the date by which it should be sold

   Broaderdate

   United Kingdom

Questions about sell-by date

What does sell-by date mean?

sell-by date means "a date stamped on perishable produce indicating the date by which it should be sold".

Is sell-by date a common word?

sell-by date is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.