transcription, транскрипция: [ bɪl ]
( bills, billing, billed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A bill is a written statement of money that you owe for goods or services.
They couldn’t afford to pay the bills...
He paid his bill for the newspapers promptly.
...phone bills.
N-COUNT
2.
If you bill someone for goods or services you have provided them with, you give or send them a bill stating how much money they owe you for these goods or services.
Are you going to bill me for this?
VERB : no cont , V n for n , also V n
3.
The bill in a restaurant is a piece of paper on which the price of the meal you have just eaten is written and which you are given before you pay. ( BRIT; in AM, use check )
N-SING : the N
4.
A bill is a piece of paper money. ( AM; in BRIT, use note )
...a large quantity of US dollar bills.
N-COUNT : usu supp N
5.
In government, a bill is a formal statement of a proposed new law that is discussed and then voted on.
This is the toughest crime bill that Congress has passed in a decade...
The bill was approved by a large majority.
N-COUNT : usu sing , usu with supp
6.
The bill of a show or concert is a list of the entertainers who will take part in it.
N-SING
7.
If someone is billed to appear in a particular show, it has been advertised that they are going to be in it.
She was billed to play the Red Queen in Snow White.
VERB : usu passive , be V-ed to-inf
• bill‧ing
...their quarrels over star billing.
N-UNCOUNT : usu with supp
8.
If you bill a person or event as a particular thing, you advertise them in a way that makes people think they have particular qualities or abilities.
They bill it as Britain’s most exciting museum.
VERB : V n as n
9.
A bird’s bill is its beak.
N-COUNT
10.
see also Private Member’s Bill
11.
If you say that someone or something fits the bill or fills the bill , you mean that they are suitable for a particular job or purpose.
If you fit the bill, send a CV to Rebecca Rees.
PHRASE : V inflects
12.
If you have to foot the bill for something, you have to pay for it.
Who is footing the bill for her extravagant holiday?
PHRASE : V inflects