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bill
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Meanings
noun
  • a printed or written statement of the money owed for goods or services.
    E.g. the bill for their meal came to £17
  • a draft of a proposed law presented to parliament for discussion.
    E.g. a debate over the civil rights bill
  • a programme of entertainment at a theatre or cinema.
    E.g. she was top of the bill at America's leading vaudeville house
  • a banknote.
    E.g. a ten-dollar bill
  • a poster or handbill.
    E.g. he has been hard at work bill posting in a poster and sticker campaign
verb
  • list (a person or event) in a programme.
    E.g. they were billed to appear but did not show up
  • send a bill to (someone).
    E.g. we shall be billing them for the damage caused
noun
  • the beak of a bird, especially when it is slender, flattened, or weak, or belongs to a web-footed bird or a bird of the pigeon family.
  • the point of an anchor fluke.
  • a narrow promontory.
    E.g. Portland Bill
verb
  • (of birds, especially doves) stroke bill with bill during courtship.
noun
  • a medieval weapon like a halberd with a hook instead of a blade.
Bill
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Meanings
noun
  • the police.

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