单词 | money bill |
释义 | money billn. 1. A bill put before a legislative assembly (as Parliament, Congress, etc.) to meet government monetary requirements, impose or regulate taxation, etc. ΘΚΠ society > law > types of laws > [noun] > financial concordatum1625 money bill1667 finance bill1786 1667 J. Denham Direct. to Painter 31 Thus past the Irish, with the Money-Bill, The first not half so good, as th'other ill. 1700 J. Evelyn Jrnl. 10 Apr. (1955) V. 401 The greate Contest betweene the Lords & Commons concerning the Lords power of amendments & rejection of certaine bills, tack't to the money bill, carried..for the Commons. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 439 The House of Commons gave a money bill for this. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. III. xiii. 369 The long agitated question of the right of the lords to make alterations in money-bills. 1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. III. xx. 459 The later etiquette of procedure on money bills, will be sought in vain in the rolls of the mediæval parliaments. 1909 A. Grant in Contemp. Rev. Nov. 540 The argument that the Finance Bill of this year is an instance of ‘tacking’, that is, of the inclusion in a Money Bill of clauses not dealing with Finance. 1987 N. Ward Dawson's Govt. Canada (ed. 6) viii. 165 The Commons has accepted Senate amendments to moneybills, usually adding a futile claim that its acquiescence must not be considered a precedent. 2. †(a) A banknote. Obsolete. (b) = bill n.3 9a, 9b. Now rare ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > [noun] > a banknote bank bill1682 bill1682 note1695 money bill1713 banknote1759 post-note1788 screen1789 stiff1823 flimsy1824 shin-plaster1824 billet1837 pennif1862 toadskin1867 currency note1891 dead president1944 1713 Boston News 7–14 Sept. 2/2 Joseph Berry of this City, Taylor, and James Mark Engraver, were both Convict of Counterfeiting our Four Pound Money Bills. 1774 R. Cumberland Note of Hand ii. ii. 27 In your transactions you may pass it to him as a money bill. 1805 T. Holcroft Mem. Bryan Perdue III. 94 The moneybills..were addressed to me, that I might memorandum their amount. 1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 25 Apr. a22 The 60 per cent [of first-class mail] that involves transfers of money-bills, checks, bank statements and the like. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1667 |
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