Bill Meaning and Definition

Word: Bill

How to pronounce: bɪl

Noun

Definitions:

1. An amount of money owed for goods supplied or services rendered, set out in a printed or written statement of charges.

Example sentences: "The bill for their meal came to $17"

2. A draft of a proposed law presented to parliament for discussion.

Example sentences: "A debate over the civil rights bill"

3. A program of entertainment, especially at a theater.

Example sentences: "She was top of the bill at America's leading vaudeville house"

4. A banknote; a piece of paper money.

Example sentences: "A ten-dollar bill"

5. A poster or handbill.

Example sentences: "The circus promoters were posting bills all over town"

Transitive verb

Definitions:

1. List (a person or event) in a program.

Example sentences: "They were billed to appear but didn't show up"

2. Send a note of charges to (someone)

Example sentences: "We shall be billing them for the damage caused"

Noun

Definitions:

1. The beak of a bird, especially when it is slender, flattened, or weak, or belongs to a web-footed bird or a bird of the pigeon family.

Example sentences: "The American Coot is a medium-sized bird with a white bill, yellow legs, and lobed toes."

Intransitive verb

Definitions:

1. (of birds, especially doves) stroke bill with bill during courtship.

Example sentences: "Two birds, perfectly white, pink-beaked, dark-eyed, pigeons, settled on the ledge outside my window, billing and cooing as birds will in spring."

Noun

Definitions:

1. A medieval weapon like a halberd with a hook instead of a blade.

Example sentences: "The trees in his orchard were hacked with a bill hook."

Synonyms:

account

tab

draft law

draft

draft bill

pending legislation

bill draft

legislative draft

promissory

banknote

bank note

greenback

legislation

law

act

ordinance

legislative acts

measure

statute

enactment

expenses

invoice

charge

cheque

check

promissory note

poster

placard

handbill

note

nib

beak

pecker

Derivations:

Billy

billed

Billie

billion

billing

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Bill in Other Languages...

Spanish: Factura

German: Rechnung

French: Loi

Italian: Bolletta

Turkish: Fatura