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The definition of bill
17 Definitions of: bill
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- noun, money owed for goods or services supplied
- noun, a written or printed account or statement of money owed
- noun, such an account for food and drink in a restaurant, hotel, etc. Usual US and Canadian word: check
- noun, any printed or written list of items, events, etc, such as a theatre programme
- noun, fit or fill the bill to serve or perform adequately
- noun, a statute in draft, before it becomes law
- noun, a printed notice or advertisement; poster
- noun, a piece of paper money; note
- noun, an obsolete name for promissory note
- noun, law. See bill of indictment
- noun, See bill of exchange
- noun, See bill of fare
- noun, any document
- verb, to send or present an account for payment to (a person)
- verb, to enter (items, goods, etc) on an account or statement
- verb, to advertise by posters
- verb, to schedule as a future programme
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- noun, the mouthpart of a bird, consisting of projecting jaws covered with a horny sheath; beak. It varies in shape and size according to the type of food eaten and may also be used as a weapon
- noun, any beaklike mouthpart in other animals
- noun, a narrow promontory
- noun, nautical the pointed tip of the fluke of an anchor
- verb, (of birds, esp doves) to touch bills together
- verb, (of lovers) to kiss and whisper amorously
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- noun, a pike or halberd with a narrow hooked blade
- noun, short for billhook
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- noun, ornithol. another word for boom
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©HarperCollins 2008. Collins English Dictionary definition of bill