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Antonyms for bills
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : bil |
| Phonetic Transcription : bɪl |
Definition of bills
Origin :- "written statement," mid-14c., from Anglo-French bille, Anglo-Latin billa "list," from Medieval Latin bulla "decree, seal, sealed document," in classical Latin "bubble, boss, stud, amulet for the neck" (hence "seal;" see bull (n.2)). Sense of "account, invoice" first recorded c.1400; that of "order to pay" (technically bill of exchange) is from 1570s; that of "paper money" is from 1660s. Meaning "draft of an act of Parliament" is from 1510s.
- noun account of charges; money owed
- noun list; circular
- noun piece of legislation
- noun piece of paper money
- noun beak of animal
- verb charge money for goods, services
- verb advertise
- What I like about Mr. Fleurant, my apothecary, is that his bills are always civil.
- Extract from : « The Imaginary Invalid » by Molire
- The big fellows at the clubs always had a wad and peeled off bills like skin off an onion.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- You pay the girls out of this, and I'll look after the other bills.
- Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
- She's the one who looked after the housekapin' and paid the bills.
- Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
- She had seen the little roll of bills in her mother's pocketbook.
- Extract from : « The Little Colonel » by Annie Fellows Johnston
- The bills said it was a London company, but I don't believe that was true.
- Extract from : « The Foolish Lovers » by St. John G. Ervine
- In those days men fastened their letters and receipts and bills with wax.
- Extract from : « Buried Cities: Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae » by Jennie Hall
- Cut off the bills and split the heads; and cut the necks and gizzards into mouthfuls.
- Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
- Get everything you need, and plenty of it, and have the bills sent to me.
- Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance
- Duncan extended the bills, then on second thought withheld them.
- Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance
Synonyms for bills
- act
- advertisement
- affiche
- agenda
- announce
- bad news
- bank note
- bone
- book
- buck
- bulletin
- card
- catalogue
- certificate
- chase
- check
- chit
- currency
- damage
- debit
- debt
- dollar
- draft
- draw upon
- dun
- figure
- flyer
- give advance notice
- greenback
- handbill
- handout
- inventory
- invoice
- IOU
- itemized account
- knock
- leaflet
- listing
- long green
- mandible
- measure
- neb
- nib
- note
- notice
- pecker
- placard
- playbill
- post
- poster
- program
- projected law
- projection
- proposal
- proposed act
- put the arm on
- put the bite on
- put the squeeze on
- reckon
- reckoning
- record
- render
- request for payment
- roster
- schedule
- score
- skin
- solicit
- statement
- statement of indebtedness
- syllabus
- tab
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