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bill         
(bills, billing, billed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A bill is a written statement of money that you owe for goods or services.
They couldn't afford to pay the bills...
He paid his bill for the newspapers promptly.
...phone bills.
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2.
If you bill someone for goods or services you have provided them with, you give or send them a bill stating how much money they owe you for these goods or services.
Are you going to bill me for this?
VERB: no cont, V n for n, also V n
3.
The bill in a restaurant is a piece of paper on which the price of the meal you have just eaten is written and which you are given before you pay. (BRIT; in AM, use check
)
N-SING: the N
4.
A bill is a piece of paper money. (AM; in BRIT, use note
)
...a large quantity of US dollar bills.
N-COUNT: usu supp N
5.
In government, a bill is a formal statement of a proposed new law that is discussed and then voted on.
This is the toughest crime bill that Congress has passed in a decade...
The bill was approved by a large majority.
N-COUNT: usu sing, usu with supp
6.
The bill of a show or concert is a list of the entertainers who will take part in it.
N-SING
7.
If someone is billed to appear in a particular show, it has been advertised that they are going to be in it.
She was billed to play the Red Queen in Snow White.
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed to-inf
billing
...their quarrels over star billing.
N-UNCOUNT: usu with supp
8.
If you bill a person or event as a particular thing, you advertise them in a way that makes people think they have particular qualities or abilities.
They bill it as Britain's most exciting museum.
VERB: V n as n
9.
A bird's bill is its beak.
N-COUNT
10.
11.
If you say that someone or something fits the bill or fills the bill, you mean that they are suitable for a particular job or purpose.
If you fit the bill, send a CV to Rebecca Rees.
PHRASE: V inflects
12.
If you have to foot the bill for something, you have to pay for it.
Who is footing the bill for her extravagant holiday?
PHRASE: V inflects
Bill         
·noun A pickax, or mattock.
II. Bill ·noun One who wields a bill; a billman.
III. Bill ·noun The bell, or boom, of the bittern.
IV. Bill ·vt To advertise by a bill or public notice.
V. Bill ·vi To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness.
VI. Bill ·vt To charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods.
VII. Bill ·noun A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.
VIII. Bill ·vi To Strike; to Peck.
IX. Bill ·vt To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill.
X. Bill ·noun The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.
XI. Bill ·noun A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
XII. Bill ·noun Any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, ·etc.
XIII. Bill ·noun 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.
XIV. Bill ·noun A writing binding 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.
XV. Bill ·noun A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods; a placard; a poster; a handbill.
XVI. Bill ·noun An account of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; a statement of a creditor's claim, in gross or by items; as, a grocer's bill.
XVII. Bill ·noun A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle;
- used in pruning, ·etc.; a billhook. When short, called a hand bill, when long, a hedge bill.
XVIII. Bill ·noun A weapon of infantry, in the 14th and 15th centuries. A common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the top, and attached to the end of a long staff.
bill         
I. n.
1.
Beak, mandible, neb.
2.
Bill-hook, hedge-bill, hedging-knife, brush-cutter.
3.
Account, charges, reckoning, score.
4.
Statement of particulars.
5.
Draft of a law, projected law.
6.
Note, note of hand, promissory note, evidence of debt, I. O. U.
7.
Placard, poster, broadside, advertisement.
II. v. n.
Kiss, caress, fondle, toy, exchange kisses and caresses.

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Examples of use of bill
1. "Whether it‘s a good bill or a bad bill or an indifferent bill doesn‘t matter.
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3. "This bill is a classic Democratic tax–and–spend bill.
4. A similar bill was vetoed by President Bill Clinton.
5. Because this bill cannot and should not pass as a one–party bill.