Invoice vs. Bill: What's the Difference?

Invoice and Bill Definitions
Invoice
A detailed list of goods shipped or services rendered, with an account of all costs; an itemized bill.
Bill
An itemized list or statement of fees or charges.
Invoice
The goods or services itemized in an invoice.
Bill
A statement or list of particulars, such as a theater program or menu.
Invoice
To make an invoice of (goods or services).
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Bill
The entertainment offered by a theater.
Invoice
To send an invoice to; bill.
Bill
A public notice, such as an advertising poster.
Invoice
A bill; a commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer indicating the products, quantities and agreed prices for products or services that the seller has already provided the buyer with. An invoice indicates that, unless paid in advance, payment is due by the buyer to the seller, according to the agreed terms.
Bill
A piece of legal paper money
A ten-dollar bill.
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Invoice
The lot or set of goods as shipped or received.
The merchant receives a large invoice of goods.
Bill
(Slang) One hundred dollars.
Invoice
The price which a seller or dealer pays the manufacturer for goods to be sold.
Bill
A bill of exchange.
Invoice
(transitive) To bill; to issue an invoice to.
I will invoice my supplier tomorrow.
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Bill
(Obsolete) A promissory note.
Invoice
(transitive) To make an invoice for (goods or services).
Bill
A draft of a proposed law presented for approval to a legislative body.
Invoice
A written account of the particulars of merchandise shipped or sent to a purchaser, consignee, factor, etc., with the value or prices and charges annexed.
Bill
The law enacted from such a draft
A bottle bill in effect in three states.
The GI Bill.
Invoice
The lot or set of goods as shipped or received; as, the merchant receives a large invoice of goods.
Bill
A document containing the formal statement of a case in equity; a complaint seeking equitable relief.
Invoice
To make a written list or account of, as goods to be sent to a consignee; to insert in a priced list; to write or enter in an invoice.
Goods, wares, and merchandise imported from Norway, and invoiced in the current dollar of Norway.
Bill
An indictment or charge in an indictment against an accused person.
Invoice
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
Bill
A structure projecting from the head of a bird, consisting of the jaws and their horny covering and including the upper and lower mandibles; a beak.
Invoice
Send an bill to;
She invoiced the company for her expenses
Bill
A similar horny mouth part, such as that of a turtle.
Bill
The visor of a cap.
Bill
(Nautical)The tip of the fluke of an anchor.
Bill
A billhook.
Bill
A halberd or similar weapon with a hooked blade and a long handle.
Bill
To present a statement of costs or charges to.
Bill
To enter on a statement of costs or on a particularized list.
Bill
To advertise or schedule by public notice or as part of a program.
Bill
To declare or describe officially; proclaim
A policy that was billed as an important departure for the administration.
Bill
To touch beaks together.
Bill
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.
Bill
A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
Bill
Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
Bill
A pickaxe, or mattock.
Bill
(nautical) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
Bill
The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.
Bill
A beak-like projection, especially a promontory.
There is a lighthouse on Portland Bill.
Bill
Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
Bill
A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)
Bill
A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)
Bill
A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
Bill
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.
Bill
A piece of paper money; a banknote.
Bill
One hundred dollars.
Bill
A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.
Bill
A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods
Bill
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.
Bill
A set of items presented together.
Bill
The bell, or boom, of the bittern.
Bill
(transitive) To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.
Bill
(obsolete) to peck
Bill
To stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness
Bill
(transitive) To advertise by a bill or public notice.
Bill
(transitive) To charge; to send a bill to.
Bill
A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.
Bill
The bell, or boom, of the bittern
The bittern's hollow bill was heard.
Bill
A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle; - used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. When short, called a hand bill, when long, a hedge bill.
Bill
A weapon of infantry, in the 14th and 15th centuries. A common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the top, and attached to the end of a long staff.
France had no infantry that dared to face the English bows end bills.
Bill
One who wields a bill; a billman.
Bill
A pickax, or mattock.
Bill
The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.
Bill
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.
Bill
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.
Bill
A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
Bill
A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods; a placard; a poster; a handbill.
She put up the bill in her parlor window.
Bill
An account of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; a statement of a creditor's claim, in gross or by items; as, a grocer's bill.
Bill
Any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc.
Bill
To strike; to peck.
Bill
To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness.
Bill
To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill.
Bill
To advertise by a bill or public notice.
Bill
To charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods.
Bill
A statute in draft before it becomes law;
They held a public hearing on the bill
Bill
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
Bill
A piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank);
He peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes
Bill
The entertainment offered at a public presentation
Bill
A list of particulars (as a playbill or bill of fare)
Bill
An advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution;
He mailed the circular to all subscribers
Bill
Horny projecting mouth of a bird
Bill
A sign posted in a public place as an advertisement;
A poster advertised the coming attractions
Bill
A long-handled saw with a curved blade;
He used a bill to prune branches off of the tree
Bill
A brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes;
He pulled down the bill of his cap and trudged ahead
Bill
Demand payment;
Will I get charged for this service?
We were billed for 4 nights in the hotel, although we stayed only 3 nights
Bill
Advertise especially by posters or placards;
He was billed as the greatest tenor since Caruso
Bill
Publicize or announce by placards