Word: Bills
How to pronounce: bɪl
Noun
Definitions:
1. A printed or written statement of the money owed for goods or services.
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 programme of entertainment at a theatre or cinema.
Example sentences: "She was top of the bill at America's leading vaudeville house"
4. A banknote.
Example sentences: "A ten-dollar bill"
5. A poster or handbill.
Example sentences: "He has been hard at work bill posting in a poster and sticker campaign"
Verb
Definitions:
1. List (a person or event) in a programme.
Example sentences: "They were billed to appear but did not show up"
2. Send a bill 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."
2. The point of an anchor fluke.
Example sentences: "The flukes will be buried into the seabed. The very tip of a fluke is sometimes called the bill."
3. A narrow promontory.
Example sentences: "Portland Bill"
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."
Noun
Definitions:
1. The police.
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:
Billie
billion
billing
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Bills in Other Languages...
Spanish: Factura
German: Bills
French: Loi
Italian: Bolletta
Turkish: Fatura
