Usually means: Pay the entire cost financially.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. foot the bill: Merriam-Webster
  2. foot the bill: Wiktionary
  3. foot the bill: Dictionary.com
  4. Foot the Bill: The Word Detective
  5. Foot the bill: World Wide Words
  6. foot the bill: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. foot the bill: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. foot the bill: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. foot the bill: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (foot the bill)

▸ verb:  (idiomatic) To pay for something.

Similar:
foot, pay the freight, pick up the tab, pay the fiddler, pay the piper, stump up, pay someone's way, fork over, pay one's own freight, pay one's way, more...

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foot, pay the freight, pick up the tab, pay the fiddler, pay the piper, stump up, pay someone's way, fork over, pay one's own freight, pay one's way, more...



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