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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.

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

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