Entry Word: ¹bill

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 a record of goods sold or services performed together with the costs due <luckily, the amount due on our electric bill wasn't too high this month, because we finally convinced everyone to stop wasting electricity>

Synonyms account, check, invoice, statement, tab

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

2 a piece of printed paper used as money <the United States twenty-dollar bill has a picture of Andrew Jackson on the front>

Synonyms bank note, greenback, note

Related Words paper money, scrip; buck, dollar; 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> — see poster
4 the amount owed at a bar or restaurant or the slip of paper stating the amount <Dad always pays the bill when we go out to eat> — see check 1