bill
(bɪl )
Word forms: bills , billing , billed
1. countable noun A2 account
A bill is a written statement of money that you owe for goods or services.
They couldn't afford to pay the bills.
He paid his bill for the newspapers promptly. [+ for]
...phone bills.
Synonyms: charges, rate, costs, score
2. verb [no cont] [Also VERB noun]
If you bill someone for goods or services you have provided them with, you give or send them a bill stating how much money they owe you for these goods or services.
Are you going to bill me for this? [VERB noun + for]
Synonyms: charge, debit, invoice, send a statement to
3. singular noun A2
The bill in a restaurant is a piece of paper on which the price of the meal you have just eaten is written and which you are given before you pay. [British]
regional note: in AM, use check4. countable noun regional note: in BRIT, use note
A bill is a piece of paper money. [US]
...a large quantity of U.S. dollar bills.
Synonyms: banknote, green-back [US], note
5. countable noun [usually singular]
In government, a bill is a formal statement of a proposed new law that is discussed and then voted on.
This is the toughest crime bill that Congress has passed in a decade.
The bill was approved by a large majority.
Synonyms: act of parliament, measure, proposal, piece of legislation
6. singular noun
The bill of a show or concert is a list of the entertainers who will take part in it.
7. verb [usually passive]
If someone is billed to appear in a particular show, it has been advertised that they are going to be in it.
She was billed to play the Red Queen in Snow White. [be VERB-ed to-infinitive]
billing uncountable noun
...their quarrels over star billing.
8. verb
If you bill a person or event as a particular thing, you advertise them in a way that makes people think they have particular qualities or abilities.
They bill it as Britain's most exciting museum. [VERB noun + as]
Synonyms: advertise, post, announce, push [informal]
9. countable noun
A bird's bill is its beak.
10. See also Private Member's Bill
11. fit the bill phrase
If you say that someone or something fits the bill or fills the bill, you mean that they are suitable for a particular job or purpose.
If you fit the bill, send a CV to Rebecca Rees.
Synonyms: be suitable, fit, be right, be suited
12. to foot the bill phrase
If you have to foot the bill for something, you have to pay for it.
Who is footing the bill for her extravagant holiday?
Synonyms: pay, cough up [informal], meet the cost
13. a clean bill of health phrase [PHRASE after verb]
If a doctor gives you a clean bill of health, they tell you that you are fit and healthy.
The President has been given a clean bill of health by doctors in Paris.
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Idioms:
sell someone a bill of goods [US]
to deceive someone or tell them something that is not true
I began to realize that I'd been sold a bill of goods, that I wasn't in any way incompetent or slothful.
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foot the bill
to pay for something
Police will have to foot the bill for the slight damage to both cars.
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fit the bill
to be exactly the right person or thing that is needed in a particular situation
I wanted someone who really knew their way around film-making and I knew that Richard would fit the bill.
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be given a clean bill of health
to be told by a doctor that you are completely healthy and not ill in any way
He had a full medical late last year and was given a clean bill of health.
to be examined or considered and then judged to be in a satisfactory condition
Fourteen seaside resorts failed to meet the environmental and safety standards, while 43 were given a clean bill of health.
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Collocations:
annual bill back a bill bill a client bill aims to bill collector bill payment bill proposes bill requires bills pile up block a bill budget bill check a bill controversial bill credit card bill crime bill debate a bill defeat a bill draft bill electric bill electricity bill enact a bill energy bill final bill fuel bill gas bill grocery bill hefty bill household bill immigration bill insurance bill introduce a bill legal bill medical bill monthly bill mortgage bill oppose a bill outstanding bill overdue bill pass a bill passage of a bill pay the bill propose a bill rent bill repair bill rights bill send a bill service bill sign a bill spending bill sponsor a bill stimulus bill submit a bill support a bill telephone bill typical bill unpaid bill utility bill veto a bill welfare bill
The average annual bill is now about £1,400, double what it was five years ago.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The Church has an annual repair bill of £120 million, but there is a £373 million backlog of repairs.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Millions of people are being kept in the dark about cheaper energy deals that could cut hundreds of pounds from their annual bills.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
And he would then bring back the bill himself.
The Sun
A leading medical journal has broken its long silence to back the bill.
Times, Sunday Times
He then added that he was not too impressed with his own frontbench's decision to back the bill.
Times, Sunday Times
Both execs allegedly bought sterling themselves before the deal - and billed the client 3.8million in fees.
The Sun
You can bill your clients in their local currency and look at hedging your risk, and getting some comfort on maintaining your profit margin, by using a 'forward contract'.
Times, Sunday Times
Yet despite billing their clients more than at any time in the past ten years, some law firms are preparing for layoffs.
Times, Sunday Times
Lawyers bill their clients in various ways.
Globe and Mail
The umbrella company provides payroll on behalf of the contractor and bills the agency (who in turn bills the client) for work completed by the contractor.
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His bill aims to oblige rural councils to draw up lists of noises and smells that are integral to local life.
Times, Sunday Times
In a change that would be welcome to civil libertarians and the media, the bill aims to 'combat the creeping encroachment on the openness of court proceedings'.
Times, Sunday Times
The bill aims to address a chronic shortage of doctors, particularly in rural areas.
Times, Sunday Times
The bill aims to aim to sweep away the out-dated and inflexible decision-making processes associated with the current legislation.
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The bill aims to establish a minimum standard of twenty-five lumens per watt by 2013 and sixty lumens per watt by 2018.
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His monetary problems are compounded by an aggressive bill collector looking for payments and competition from a rival scientist.
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Later, when he was tired of being a bill collector, he and his superiors decided to audit the text messages to see if the character limit was too low.
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She illustrates the process by which bill collectors are trained to restrict compassion or liking for debtors.
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The good mood doesn't last long, however, as bill collectors and creditors come knocking at the door.
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He takes cases based on their merit rather than on their monetary value, which often leads to terse notices from bill collectors.
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New ventures include a bill payment app for consumers that groups all your household statements on one platform, and business-to-business pre-payment cards.
Times, Sunday Times
One in four of them admitted to being abrupt to others in line, according to the poll by a bill payment company.
The Sun
And do not miss a bill payment on any utility or mobile phone account.
The Sun
All of this imposes a substantial penalty that could be eased if service providers were expected to ensure that all consumers had access to cheaper tariffs and bill payment options.
Times, Sunday Times
In some cases, a customer may only realise they have missed a mortgage or energy bill payment when they are informed by the company they are meant to have paid.
Times, Sunday Times
The bill proposes several important changes to the law.
Times,Sunday Times
The bill proposes guidance for schools on how to reduce anxiety about the environment.
Times,Sunday Times
The new road safety bill proposes changes to the current system.
Times, Sunday Times
Lowering the blood-alcohol concentration limit from 80 to 50mg/100ml, as the bill proposes, would save more than 100 lives a year, and prevent many more road traffic accidents.
Times, Sunday Times
The bill proposes that doctors be allowed to practise 'responsible innovation' by using experimental treatments approved by a multidisciplinary team at their hospital and overseen by one doctor.
Times, Sunday Times
The bill requires cigarette packs to display text and photo warnings on at least 50 percent of packaging.
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One provision of the bill requires that a list of healthcare navigators be provided, with contact and affiliation information.
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Passage of a bill requires the favorable vote of a majority of all members.
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The bill requires fleet operators in larger cities to convert to clean-burning fuels, including compressed natural gas during the next ten years.
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The bill requires non-party member candidates to go through a petition process to use that party's ballot access.
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Bills pile up in unopened envelopes and you have never checked your credit score because you assume it's bad.
The Sun
Why do some always know how much they have and owe, but others are vague, prefer-ring to let bills pile up unopened?
Times, Sunday Times
Finding some methods of communication more difficult, such as avoiding phone calls or opening the post, meaning bills pile up.
Times, Sunday Times
The bills pile up and the two grow apart from each other.
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But the fantasy ends when the bills pile up and the bank threatens to repossess the house.
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His passionate contributions helped to defeat an attempt to block the bill.
Times, Sunday Times
The president likened reckless bankers to 'bandits' and appealed to financial leaders not to block a bill seeking to tighten the regulation of banks and financial market.
Times, Sunday Times
His activity blocked the bill from being considered in the waning hours of the session.
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The budget bill was revised down several times, with falling tax revenues, a growing deficit, and exploding debt.
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The government warned that the service would shut down if the budget bill do not pass.
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The budget bill, however, becomes law upon its final passage and can not be vetoed.
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In particular, critics cited his unprecedented use of line-item and reduction vetoes to remove his political opponents' member initiatives from the budget bill.
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He denounced the way it which it was simply slipped it into a budget bill.
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Check the bill before paying and insist on being billed in the local currency.
The Sun
If you do order room service, check the bill when you sign.
Times, Sunday Times
You can also check your bill using the 'smart' tabletop, order a taxi and find out where to go on to for a drink nearby.
Times, Sunday Times
Make sure you check your bill carefully once you get home, in case they have added on charges.
Times, Sunday Times
Check your bill — if a retailer has charged you in sterling, say you wish to be billed in the local currency and ask for the sterling transaction to be cancelled.
Times, Sunday Times
It wasn’t a controversial bill or a heated debate that drew such an audience.
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His controversial bill, which caused dissent across the country, just squeaked through by 219 votes in favour to 212 against.
The Sun
The controversial bill was then reinstated.
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During my time here there will no doubt be a number of controversial bills proposed.
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Other houses, though, can often veto or at least delay controversial bills, perhaps until the government's performance can be judged by the electorate.
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Gone are the days when managing your credit rating was simply a matter of making sure you paid off your credit card bill on time each month.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
She was caught last year after a credit card bill was queried.
The Sun (2013)
Some restaurants include a service charge and then, when the credit card bill comes, leave a space for an additional tip.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Still, no exemption was written into the government's crime bill.
canada.com
But the $22 billion crime bill has drawn criticism for its approach to solving crime by simply spending more money on prisons and police.
Christianity Today
She congratulates him on getting the leverage to pass a crime bill that in no way will help fight crime.
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After more than 40 crime bills, many little more than press releases, he can think only of more.
Times, Sunday Times
She ultimately called that allegation a hoax that that continues to be used as an excuse for passing hate crimes bills.
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They are also unhappy that they are not being given enough time to debate the bill in full.
Times, Sunday Times
The motion to debate the bill failed.
Houston Chronicle
Ministers have decided that parliament will not begin debating the bill until the autumn.
Times, Sunday Times
Congress was debating a bill to provide a federal survey of roads and canals.
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The second reading takes place at least three days after the first reading, in which parliament debates the bill again.
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But with the two sides of the debate almost neck and neck, their heavy opposition could defeat the bill.
Globe and Mail
In 1863, he opposed and helped to defeat a bill to fix the prices of food, which he believed was fraught with the direst mischief.
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Thus, although a bill might have majority support, a minority of 41 senators can prevent a final vote, effectively defeating the bill.
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For instance, he was responsible for defeating a bill to establish a state lottery in 1935, and for defeating a referendum liberalizing state birth control laws in 1942.
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His colleagues defeated the bill both years.
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The draft bill, to be published shortly, will appease most critics who feared that human rights protections would be removed.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Apple points to a range of practical obstacles to complying with the draft bill.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The aim is for a short consultation document with a draft bill next spring.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
A draft bill that critics say could infringe on free speech cleared an important parliamentary hurdle yesterday.
The Star (South Africa) (2004)
But my electric bill has not gone down.
The Sun
If he hasn't paid the electric bill on time by now, he probably never will.
Christianity Today
The average family add 55 to their electric bill each year by leaving lights on in unoccupied rooms.
The Sun
But sometimes you have just got to pay the electric bill!
The Sun
Towards the gas and electric bill.
The Sun
The poor and the elderly are hardest hit by high electricity bills.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Electricity bills for consumers would also rise because power shortages would drive up prices.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
While average gas and electricity bills in the UK are lower than in many other European countries, they are rising faster than incomes.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
A yes vote was to enact the bill.
Houston Chronicle
Enacting the bill could affect direct spending and revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures apply.
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Enacting the bill would have no impact on direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply.
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Because enacting the bill would affect direct spending, pay-as-you-go procedures apply.
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Enacting the bill would not affect direct spending.
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From the reports, it seems the energy bill is nothing to write home about.
Houston Chronicle (2003)
One way you can slice hundreds of pounds off your annual energy bill is to switch supplier.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
All options would mean householders paying significantly more than the current average annual energy bill of more than 1,000.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Electricity distribution costs account for only one sixth of a household energy bill.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
It has been the financial catastrophe to end all catastrophes and the final bill is not yet in.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The gym can chase up any amount still owed through the county court, adding hundreds to the final bill.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Make sure you settle the final bill with your old supplier before cancelling any direct debits.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Especially with university fees adding 27,000 or more to the final bill.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
But many are keeping the temperature low to save on fuel bills, which are expected to rise by 42 per cent this year.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Domestic fuel bills are a hot topic, particularly in the winter.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Last month the airline was forced to cancel some of its flights when oil companies refused to fill up its aircraft because of unpaid fuel bills.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
My monthly electricity and gas bills have gone up.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Does your electricity or gas bill seem much too high?
Stay Well This Winter (1989)
But it remains rare to meet anyone minded to sell a home purely because of the size of the gas bill.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It claims it can help you cut 20% off your weekly grocery bill.
Times, Sunday Times
There's never been a better opportunity to give veggie meals a try — and save on your grocery bill at the same time.
The Sun
During the same campaign, after learning that a veterans' shelter was struggling, he began paying part of its grocery bill.
Times, Sunday Times
The family grocery bill, therefore, has been increased three times - by inflation, rising import costs and the new higher sales tax of 8 per cent.
Times, Sunday Times
He said his grocery bill was eating into his monthly budget - and that there was nothing he could do about the situation.
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And those who opt for independent schools face a hefty bill too.
The Sun (2016)
It also avoids the prospect of a hefty bill to put a car through the test.
The Sun (2007)
Failure to do this could result in a hefty bill for damage caused by another user.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
If you own a holiday home in either country you could consequently face a hefty bill when your spouse dies.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Now red-faced party officials are facing a hefty bill to refund all the postage charges.
The Sun (2013)
How do you split the household bills?
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Household bills have risen by about 80 % in the past five years.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
On average such devices account for nearly 30 per cent of household electricity bills.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
And the source said ministers will publish an immigration bill within weeks.
The Sun
An immigration bill to be published in the autumn will make it an offence to work illegally.
Times, Sunday Times
Yesterday, he merely said he was 'pleased' that there was now a prospect of getting a 'comprehensive immigration bill agreed'.
Times, Sunday Times
An immigration bill paving the way for points-based system divided opinion.
Times,Sunday Times
Overseas students would be able to work for two years after graduation under a proposed amendment to the immigration bill.
Times, Sunday Times
I wouldn't fancy covering his insurance bill for that.
The Sun
To cut your home insurance bill, pay annually instead of by monthly direct debit.
Times, Sunday Times
Less than $100 was raised; the insurance bill could not be paid.
Christianity Today
His insurance bill could now be 38,000 a year.
The Sun
But he didn't think about the massive insurance bill they have now been left with.
The Sun
But tomorrow she's being asked to introduce a bill which she fundamentally disagrees with elements of.
Times, Sunday Times
Or, he may introduce the bill, knowing it will be defeated, in hopes of getting it off his plate.
Globe and Mail
A heavy smoker until he quit in 1985, he also attempted, unsuccessfully, to introduce a bill to enable cabbies to ban smoking in their cabs.
Times, Sunday Times
Ministers will introduce a bill soon making it a criminal offence.
The Sun
However, any member or group of members may introduce a bill, but usually these will not pass the committee phase.
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The total legal bill is said to be around 100 million.
The Sun (2012)
A teacher has been landed with a 50,000 legal bill in a boundary dispute with her elderly neighbours after moving a fence 15 inches.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The council estimates its final legal bill will be 20,000.
The Sun (2007)
The cherry on the cake was that she was also ordered to pay the housekeeper's 363.32 dollar (185) medical bill.
The Sun
Any conditions your insurer doesn't know about will not be covered and you could face a huge medical bill if you fall ill abroad.
The Sun
But with the actor owing the taxman, who will foot the medical bill?
The Sun
The hospital has helped with digs while they see if their insurance covers the medical bill.
The Sun
Holiday insurance covered his 12,500 medical bill.
The Sun
I have always paid my monthly bill by direct debit.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
We got to a point where our monthly bills were always higher than our monthly income.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Many heavy users, who could easily run up monthly bills of hundreds of dollars, were switching to cheaper alternatives.
DOT.CON (2001)
The total mortgage bill would therefore be 1,316, giving you an annual saving of 1,476.
Times, Sunday Times
With a rental income of 1,000 and a monthly mortgage bill of 870, he covered 115% of the repayments.
Times, Sunday Times
This adds 874 a year to the mortgage bill.
Times, Sunday Times
The new interest-rate increase will add a further 16 a month (192 a year) to the average mortgage bill, based on a 100,000 loan.
Times, Sunday Times
They have used up all their savings paying their $865 monthly mortgage bill, but have been unable to make the last five payments.
Times, Sunday Times
However, several would be likely to oppose the bill in its final stages if they cannot insert softer clauses such as a customs union.
Times,Sunday Times
Five have indicated that they oppose the bill in its current form.
Times, Sunday Times
Around 30 are set to oppose the bill while about 20 more are likely to abstain, with the rest voting in favour, according to one rebel ringleader.
Times, Sunday Times
The states showed up in full force to oppose the bill.
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The lobby had always opposed any bills allowing home equity loans.
Houston Chronicle
Armed with that information she phoned and spoke to someone who agreed that the bill paid would be reimbursed and the outstanding bill cancelled.
Times, Sunday Times
The new rules, which would require primary legislation, would give landlords an incentive to provide details of the tenant or face paying an outstanding bill themselves.
Times, Sunday Times
It was the 13th time he had been taken to court over an outstanding bill.
Times, Sunday Times
You will need to submit final meter readings and settle any outstanding bill with your old supplier.
Times, Sunday Times
He conceded that the family had recently been making progress payments toward their outstanding bill but said that the total amount owing had still been increasing each month.
Times, Sunday Times
When, incensed, she wrote to cancel her account in protest, she received a red overdue bill.
Times, Sunday Times
It handles multiple accounts and shows due and overdue bills.
The Sun
Large companies that pay their suppliers late would be forced to pay interest on overdue bills under plans to be debated in parliament this week.
Times, Sunday Times
As a result of the delays, small businesses are having to spend several hours a week chasing overdue bills.
Times, Sunday Times
According to the government, small businesses are owed 26 billion in late payments and spend millions of pounds in chasing overdue bills.
Times, Sunday Times
Voters spend money now on things they value and pass the bill on to voters that haven't been born yet.
Times, Sunday Times
It called for a pledge from all parties to pass a bill, pledged by the government four years ago, for a public register revealing the true ownership of luxury properties.
Times,Sunday Times
A yes vote was to pass the bill.
Houston Chronicle
She still has to pass a bill to ratify the agreement.
Times, Sunday Times
Parliament would have to pass a bill.
Times, Sunday Times
The passage of the bill, on a vote of 25 to 6, drew protests from rights groups.
Times, Sunday Times
There was a lot of information being discussed regarding how good or bad the passage of this bill would be.
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Your committee, therefore, recommends passage of the bill.
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There are several slightly-varying accounts of the passage of the bill for the three-cent nickel coin.
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It shall be in order at any time before the passage of any bill or resolution to move its commitment.
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Later, paying the bill, he picks up the waiter's handheld card-reader.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
And we don't have a brass farthing to pay the bill.
The Sun (2009)
The mansion tax fitted the bill, and paid the bill.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Presumably your pals make you pay the bill when you go out for dinner or drinks?
The Sun (2012)
He changed his stance on climate change and even proposed a bill to limit emissions.
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All such situations could be covered by the proposed bill.
Times, Sunday Times
The proposed bill of rights applies this wisdom to our justice system.
Globe and Mail
He proposed a bill of indemnity granting him retroactive approval for governing without a legal budget.
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Congress had proposed bills that placed huge tariffs and taxes on imported sugar.
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The company's rent bill rose from £4.3 million to £4.7 million last year.
Times,Sunday Times
The company has closed 122 outdoor stores in the past year to cut a high rent bill, leaving a portfolio of 174 stores.
Times, Sunday Times
Only about 30% of this quarter's £2.5bn rent bill was paid last week.
Times,Sunday Times
We found the average rent bill for each area's biggest benefit-claiming clan was about 16,000 a year.
The Sun
The average rent bill over 50 years was found to be 623,000.
The Sun
He had to pay a £1,500 repair bill after throwing the guitar on the floor.
The Sun (2009)
There was so much liquid on set yesterday that it led to a flood which damaged two cameras, leaving a £10,000 repair bill.
The Sun (2010)
In other cases, landlords have been saddled with problem tenants, extensive repair bills and unpaid rent.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The figures were issued as a new consumer rights bill was tabled in parliament last week.
Times, Sunday Times
A government source confirmed that work was under way on an employment rights bill.
Times, Sunday Times
The draft consumer rights bill also clarifies rules about returning faulty goods and sets out protections for those who receive substandard home improvements or services.
Times, Sunday Times
In that fight, a rent control renewal bill was held up until the civil rights bill was withdrawn.
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The original city rights bill was lost in a large fire that swept through the city, reducing the city hall and the keep to rubble.
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They may insist on limits to the volume of the sound system, require deposits, or send a bill if things get damaged.
Christianity Today
But neither can send a bill to the other.
Times, Sunday Times
How can someone deliver a parcel then a few weeks later send a bill?
The Sun
She claims she asked the phone company to send the bill directly to her, but instead it was bundled up with the couple's cable television, internet and phone account.
Times, Sunday Times
Legal challenges may also send the bill upwards.
Times, Sunday Times
Even with my savings on second-class stamps, it will take decades to cover the service bills.
Times, Sunday Times
If you do, a word to the wise: save it for servicing bills.
Times, Sunday Times
They will be the elderly without protected public sector pensions, people dependent on a welfare state that cannot afford a soaring health and social services bill.
Times, Sunday Times
The governor refused to sign the bill, but the company organized anyway.
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The governor was expected to sign the bill, and ultimately did so.
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The king, of course, refused to sign this bill.
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First, the president can sign the bill into law.
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The president may sign the bill and make it law.
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He claimed he will find 10billion savings from the public spending bill.
The Sun
The increased burden of people living longer means that tax revenues will fail to cover the public spending bill by the 2020s.
Times, Sunday Times
Congress has until midnight tomorrow to pass a spending bill and prevent much of the federal government grinding to a halt.
Times, Sunday Times
He later issued a second opinion that allowed essential government services to continue in the absence of a spending bill.
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Rice voted to approve the stopgap spending bill that would have delayed the individual mandate.
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He sponsored the bill to reinstate daily overtime pay with flexibility for workers and employers.
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He sponsored the bill which brought the secret ballot to the province.
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In 1998, he sponsored a bill that would extend loans to college students in order to encourage them to stay in the state.
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In 2010, she sponsored a bill to give in-state tuition to veterans.
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He sponsored a bill protecting the privacy of boat and outboard motor owners.
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He pushed through what voters thought was a stimulus bill.
Times, Sunday Times
Its stock was holed below the waterline by reports that a $2.2 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill would exclude large cruise ships.
Times,Sunday Times
The 2009 stimulus bill exempts the first few unemployment checks from taxes.
Houston Chronicle
If not, the longhoped-for recovery in consumer spending may never arrive, he said, and the housing situation could undermine the country's 'make-or-break' stimulus bill.
Times, Sunday Times
In 2009, in the middle of the worst recession since the 1930s, a newly elected president asked for a modest stimulus bill to stop the bleeding.
Times, Sunday Times
He practised at three veterinary premises, including his home, and would not submit a bill until he was certain that his client had the funds to pay.
Times, Sunday Times
He would submit a bill for their services and would continue to accept missions like the previous one for the government.
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First, legislators must submit a bill request to the legislative council staff.
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Additionally, a legislator-elect may submit a bill request or private citizens can obtain authorization from a legislator to use the legislator's name before giving instructions to the legislative council staff.
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He submitted his bill for 1,000 - and was never asked to return, or even thanked.
Times, Sunday Times
He told me he'd come to support the bill after he was affected by the compassionate aspect of this.
The Sun
We fully support the bill and hope it will lead to a change in access to treatments.
Times, Sunday Times
We support the bill because it offers hope to people yet to face what we have faced.
Times, Sunday Times
Demo-crats have refused to support the bill, setting the stage for an impasse.
Times, Sunday Times
But your citizens still pay the taxes that support this bill.
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I hate to think what his telephone bill must have been like because he was tireless in consulting hip specialists and doctors.
Times, Sunday Times
His luck evaporated faster than you could say 'open the box' when a telephone bill for 8,782.86 arrived.
Times, Sunday Times
How do you make a telephone bill understandable?
Times, Sunday Times
They are expected to provide telephone bill proof of entry.
Times, Sunday Times
If your telephone bill came in under a hundred, you'd be pleased.
Times, Sunday Times
That could add up to a saving of £37 on a typical bill.
The Sun (2009)
Motorists have seen typical insurance bills double over the past four years.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
And if you use electricity to heat your home, the typical bill for a three-bedroom house is £1,600.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
He was also made bankrupt in July over unpaid tax bills.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The pair clash at first with a bust-up over an unpaid bill at her pizza restaurant.
The Sun (2008)
They would also be able to force their way into homes to seize property to pay off debts, such as unpaid credit card bills and loans.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
At the same time, consumers face high utility bills and a heavier tax burden.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
If your address has changed you will need to take proof of your current address, such as a utility bill.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
This is because some of the most common costs, such as utility bills, food and transport, are rising fastest.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
If the mayor vetoes a bill, the council may override the veto by a two-thirds vote.
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The mayor may veto a bill passed by the council, but the council can override the veto with a two-thirds majority.
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Should the governor veto a bill, the state legislature may override his veto with a two-thirds vote.
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The governor can veto the bill, but this veto can be overridden by a two-thirds majority in each house.
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While the assembly could propose new laws, the governor could still veto any bill.
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Faster growth would make much easier the task of restoring the public finances, by increasing tax revenues and reducing the welfare bill.
Times, Sunday Times
But the targets must be our spiralling welfare bill.
The Sun
The welfare bill will be cut by almost 2bn by 2018.
Times, Sunday Times
That's before even looking at cuts to the welfare bill, grants, civil servants' pay or redundancies.
The Sun
Through it all the one certainty in the public finances was a rising welfare bill.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 帐单, 议案, 给…开账单
Japanese: 請求書, 法案 legislation, 請求書を送る
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- severe symptoms
- severe threat
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- severe trauma
- severe turbulence
- severe warning
- severe weather
- severe winter
- severe wound
- severity
- sever links with
- sew
- sew a button on
- sewage
- sewage discharge
- sewage overflow
- sewage plant
- sewage pollution
- sewage sludge
- sewage spill