bill

Meaning

1. A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)
2. A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)
3. A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
4. (obsolete) 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.
5. A piece of paper money; a banknote.
6. (slang) A piece of paper money; a banknote.
7. (slang) One hundred pounds sterling.
8. A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.
9. A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods
10. 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; a bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.
11. A set of items presented together.

bank bill

bill of exchange

banker’s bill

government note

commercial note

commercial paper

Federal Reserve note

slip of paper

statement of accounts

make out a bill

show bill

one’s account

job invoice

show-bill

statement for payment

programma

bird’s beak

negotiable instruments

address

appendix

billie

declare

paper currency

promissory note

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɪl/

table From Middle English bille, from Anglo-Norman bille, from Old French bulle, from Medieval Latin bulla (“seal", "sealed document”). Compare bull.

Cognate with Western Frisian

bile

Cognate with Dutch

bijl

Cognate with German

Bille

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The male has a

black bill , whereas the female has red on the mandibles .

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