bill

¹bill

noun

Definition of BILL

1

a record of goods sold or services performed together with the costs due <why is the electric bill so high this month?>

Synonyms account, check, invoice, statement, tab

Related Words receipt, reckoning; document, ledger, record; charge, cost, expense, fee, price, rate, toll; score, tally

2

a piece of printed paper used as money in the United States <the $20 bill has a picture of Andrew Jackson on the front>

Synonyms banknote, greenback, note

Related Words dead presidents [slang], paper money, scrip; buck, dollar, simoleon [slang], smacker [slang]; C-note, fifty, fin [slang], five, fiver [slang], hundred, one, sawbuck [slang], ten, tenner, twenty, two; cash, chips, currency, dough, legal tender, lucre, money, pelf; check, draft, money order

3

a sheet bearing an announcement for posting in a public place <posted a bill advertising the new play>

Synonyms bill, placard

Related Words billboard, sign, signboard; broadside, flyer (also flier), handbill, handout, playbill, show bill; ad, advertisement, announcement, bulletin, dispatch, release

4

the amount owed at a bar or restaurant or the slip of paper stating the amount <although they were all working adults, their father still insisted on paying the bill whenever they went out to eat>

Synonyms bill, tab

Related Words invoice, receipt; account, reckoning, record, statement; charge, cost, damage, expense, fee, figure; score, tally

5

a rule of conduct or action laid down by a governing authority and especially a legislature <the fair housing bill of the 1960s>

Synonyms act, bill, constitution, enactment, ordinance, statute

Related Words command, commandment, decree, dictate, directive, edict, fiat, ruling; bylaw, ground rule, regulation, rule; amendment, legislation; common law, martial law; blue law; prohibition, proscription, restriction; canon, capitulary, encyclical

Near Antonyms higher law