bill1

noun

• 1a printed or written statement of the money owed for goods or services:the bill for their meal came to £17

• 2a draft of a proposed law presented to parliament for discussion:a debate over the civil rights bill

• 3a programme of entertainment at a theatre or cinema:she was top of the bill at America’s leading vaudeville house

• 4North American a banknote:a ten-dollar bill

• 5a poster or handbill: [as modifier]:he has been hard at work bill posting in a poster and sticker campaign

verb

• 1list (a person or event) in a programme:they were billed to appear but did not show up
• (bill someone/thing as) describe or advertise someone or something in a particular way:he was billed as ‘the new Sean Connery’

• 2send a bill to (someone):we shall be billing them for the damage caused [with two objects]:he had been billed £3,000 for his licence
• charge (a sum of money):we billed £400,000