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▸ noun: A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)
▸ noun: A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
▸ noun: (obsolete, law) 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.
▸ noun: (US, Canada) A piece of paper money; a banknote.
▸ noun: (slang, Canada, US) One hundred dollars.
▸ noun: (slang, UK) One hundred pounds sterling.
▸ noun: A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.
▸ noun: A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: A set of items presented together.
▸ verb: (transitive) To advertise by a bill or public notice.
▸ verb: (transitive) To charge; to send a bill to.
▸ noun: The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.
▸ noun: A beak-like projection, especially a promontory.
▸ noun: Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
▸ verb: (obsolete) to peck
▸ verb: to stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness
▸ noun: Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.
▸ noun: A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
▸ noun: Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
▸ noun: A pickaxe or mattock.
▸ noun: (nautical) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
▸ verb: (transitive) To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.
▸ noun: The bell, or boom, of the bittern.
▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive, UK, slang) To roll up a marijuana cigarette.
▸ noun: A diminutive of the male given name William.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ noun: (British, slang) A nickname for the British constabulary. Often called "The Bill" or "Old Bill"
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electric bill,
water bill,
phone bill,
cable bill,
gas bill,
medical bill,
credit card bill,
rent bill,
mortgage bill,
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