bill
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English bille, from Anglo-Norman bille, from Old French bulle, from Medieval Latin bulla (“seal, sealed document”). Doublet of bull (“papal bull; bubble”) and bulla.
Inflected forms:
form: bills
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bills
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: billing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: billed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: billed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)
pos: noun
gloss: A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)
pos: noun
gloss: A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
pos: noun
examples: Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the Prime Minister, I beg to introduce a bill entitled[…]
Why, I'll exhibit a bill in the parliament for the putting down of men.
David Cameron insists that his latest communications data bill is “vital to counter terrorism”. Yet terror is mayhem. It is no threat to freedom. That threat is from counter-terror, from ministers capitulating to securocrats.
gloss: A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: ... the legion of bills in the suit have been transformed into mere bills of mortality ...
gloss: A piece of paper money; a banknote.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: He gave the change for a three dollar bill. Upon examination, the bill proved to be counterfeit.
[…]So I wropped 'em up in a five dollar bill and tied 'em up and sent 'em, and they ain't back yet.”
I ran into the Devil, babe, he loaned me 20 bills.
gloss: A piece of paper money; a banknote.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
slang
examples: There was no excuse, simply no excuse for not making four or five bills a week. A little initiative, that's all.
All we got from her was Stranahan's location, and barely that. A house in the bay, she said. A house with a windmill. Easiest five bills that woman ever made.
gloss: One hundred pounds sterling.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
examples: In the conversation Henshall says he "struggling to find people to go up the roads" explaining how it would be "no good for black people" and how they need a "young white boy to go up there".
Stock agrees, saying how he knows "this kid" who "owes me 12 bills".
gloss: A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge owing; an invoice.
pos: noun
examples: He received a bill of £9 for the groceries.
My lord, here is my bill.
gloss: A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, listing the price or charge paid; a receipt.
pos: noun
tags: India
slang
gloss: A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods
pos: noun
examples: In the meantime I will draw a bill of properties, such as our play wants.
gloss: A writing that binds the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document; a bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.
pos: noun
examples: Ay, and Rato-lorum too; and a gentleman born, Master Parson; who writes himself Armigero, in any bill, warrant, quittance, or obligation, Armigero.
gloss: A set of items presented together.
pos: noun
examples: Meanwhile, the bills on the main stages skewed towards mainstream pop, with mixed results. Lorde’s Friday evening Other stage appearance was one of the weekend’s highlights. The staging and choreography were fantastic – a giant glass tank on a hydraulic platform, in and around which a troupe of dancers acted out the highs and lows of a teenage party
gloss: A list of pupils to be disciplined for breaking school rules.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: One of the best stories of the period describes the misadventure of a batch of candidates for confirmation whose names were by accident sent up to the Head-Master on a piece of paper identical in size and shape with the "bill" used by the Masters for the purpose of reporting delinquents. Keate, we are told, insisted on flogging all the boys mentioned in the document […]
gloss: To advertise by a bill or public notice.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [...] it will be recalled that in 1960 they were billed as the long-distance express multiple-units of the future, [...].
gloss: To charge; to send a bill to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The physician explains that this is an option for her and that she can sign the facility's ABN so that if Medicare denies the claim, the facility can bill her for the scan.
Related words: check
Derived words: accommodation bill
bathroom bill
billboard
bill discounter
biller
billfold
billhead
billholder
bill of adventure
bill of attainder
bill of complaint
bill of costs
bill of credit
bill of divorce
bill of entry
bill of exceptions
bill of exchange
bill of fare
bill of goods
bill of health
bill of indictment
bill of lading
bill of material
bill of materials
bill of mortality
bill of pains and penalties
bill of parcels
bill of particulars
bill of quantities
bill of rights
bill of sale
bill of sight
bill of store
bill of sufferance
bill of victualling
billpayer
billpaying
billposter
billposting
bills payable
bills receivable
billsticker
billsticking
bill strap
butcher's bill
check bill
Christmas tree bill
commit a bill
could I get the bill
could we get the bill
dishonoured bill
divorce bill
dollar bill
double bill
duebill
e-bill
Eurobill
exchequer bill
fill the bill
fit the bill
foot the bill
heads of the bill
heartbeat bill
housekeeping bill
hybrid bill
light bill
member's bill
monthly bill
newsbill
no-bill
on one's bill
paybill
phony as a three-dollar bill
playbill
private bill
private member's bill
quarter bill
queer as a three dollar bill
revenue bill
scrilla
sell someone a bill of goods
single as a dollar bill
small, unmarked bills
station bill
superbill
T-bill
time bill
timebill
topbill
Treasury bill
triple bill
true bill
victualling bill
wage bill
watch bill
waybill
billlike
handbill
billability
billable
bulk bill
misbill
overbill
prebill
rebill
underbill
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