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Bill

noun

1.

A statute in draft before it becomes law. Synonym: measure.

2.

An itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered. Synonyms: account, invoice. "Send me an account of what I owe"

3.

A piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank). Synonyms: bank bill, bank note, banker's bill, banknote, Federal Reserve note, government note, greenback, note.

4.

The entertainment offered at a public presentation.

5.

An advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution. Synonyms: broadsheet, broadside, circular, flier, flyer, handbill, throwaway.

6.

A sign posted in a public place as an advertisement. Synonyms: card, notice, placard, poster, posting.

7.

A list of particulars (as a playbill or bill of fare).

8.

A long-handled saw with a curved blade. Synonym: billhook.

9.

A brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes. Synonyms: eyeshade, peak, visor, vizor.

10.

Horny projecting mouth of a bird. Synonyms: beak, neb, nib, pecker.

verb

(past & past part. billed; pres. part. billing)

1.

Demand payment. Synonym: charge. "We were billed for 4 nights in the hotel, although we stayed only 3 nights"

2.

Advertise especially by posters or placards.

3.

Publicize or announce by placards. Synonym: placard.

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"Bill" Quotes from Famous Books

... youth to manhood, for that a man must needs live, Beltane builded him a hut beside the brook, and set up an anvil thereby whereon he beat out bill-hooks and axe-heads and such implements as the charcoal-burners and they that lived within the ...

— Beltane The Smith • Jeffery Farnol

... sorting, spinning, and weaving cotton. This is a common sight in nearly every village, and each family appears to have its patch of cotton, as our own ancestors in Scotland had each his patch of flax. Near sunset an immense flock of the large species of horn-bill (Buceros cristatus) came here to roost on the great trees which skirt the edge of the cliff. They leave early in the morning, often before sunrise, for their feeding-places, coming and going in pairs. They ...

— A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries • David Livingstone

... was a folded sheet of paper which proved to be a receipted hotel bill. It showed that a Mr. Coburn and another had stayed in the Peveril Hotel in Russell Square during the previous four days. When Willis saw it he gave a grunt of satisfaction. It would doubtless offer a ...

— The Pit Prop Syndicate • Freeman Wills Crofts

... he explained, "but I met a man who asked me to change a bill for him. He got the change, but I'm looking for him to get the bill. I don't know, to save my life, how he got away. I still have his umbrella that he asked ...

— The One Woman • Thomas Dixon

... not consent to give King Boy a book for all this money, he should send them into the interior of the country to be sold, and that they never should see the sea again. It was now seen that they had no alternative, and they considered it most prudent to give him the bill, not intending, however, on their arrival at the sea, to give him more than twenty common trade guns, to pay this chief and all other expenses. King Boy was to give Obie five pieces of cloth and one gun as part payment; the remainder was to be paid on his return, after ...

— Lander's Travels - The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa • Robert Huish

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