bill

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Editorial note

Double billing for a single service is a neat trick if you can pull it off.

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Quick take

a statute in draft before it becomes law; "they held a public hearing on the bill"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of bill gathered in one view.

noun

a statute in draft before it becomes law; "they held a public hearing on the bill"

noun

an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered; "he paid his bill and left"; "send me an account of what I owe"

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a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank); "he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for bill.

noun

a statute in draft before it becomes law; "they held a public hearing on the bill"

noun

an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered; "he paid his bill and left"; "send me an account of what I owe"

noun

a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank); "he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes"

noun

the entertainment offered at a public presentation

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an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution; "he mailed the circular to all subscribers"

noun

a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement; "a poster advertised the coming attractions"

See also: poster, posting, placard, notice, card

noun

a list of particulars (as a playbill or bill of fare)

noun

a long-handled saw with a curved blade; "he used a bill to prune branches off of the tree"

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a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes; "he pulled down the bill of his cap and trudged ahead"

noun

horny projecting mouth of a bird

verb

demand payment; "Will I get charged for this service?"; "We were billed for 4 nights in the hotel, although we stayed only 3 nights"

verb

advertise especially by posters or placards; "He was billed as the greatest tenor since Caruso"

verb

publicize or announce by placards

Example sentences

Double billing for a single service is a neat trick if you can pull it off.

A bit like pirates which this bill is protecting us against?

We had seen the older couple earlier, but we didn't know them, and they were gone by the time we got our bill.

If you made enough money this week to pay a bill that you couldn't pay last week, that's a victory.

Young attorneys were being billed out at $500+ per hour and pressured to make their minimum hourly quotas every year.

They should also personally attack each of the original progenators in the Senate/House of the bill.

I can see that we've already refunded you all the hosting fees you paid for your account, and I'll also make sure we pick up the $500 migration bill that you incurred.

"Trying to say something that actually gets to the merit of the bill is a waste of time on a Sunday morning talk show... it's just too complicated an issue.

But when the entertainment industry pays lobbyists $95 million to get a bill they wrote passed, both Republicans and Democrats line up to co-sponsor it.

]When they say, "Google profits from pirated software," you say, "Not as much as the congressmen are profiting from the $95 million dollars in lobbyist money that paid for this bill.

Using your stored CC info to auto-bill you for an unrelated product that you never consented to be billed for is quite likely in violation of their merchant agreement with the CC processor.

There is another comment in this thread by squeee which is the first one I read that my Uncle Art would understand, something like, "If someone shoplifts in your store, this bill allows the government to shut down your store.

That's unfortunate, but it's not our problem, and rather than stick him with the bill for $X,000 in back taxes we're just going to tell the tax authorities that he's been maliciously reclassified and that you're delinquent in your obligations.