SHELF LIFE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The length of time a packaged food or drug will last without deteriorating

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("shelf life" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Credits

 Context examples: 

After the end of the product shelf life it is not to be used.

(Medical Product Shelf Life, NCI Thesaurus)