bill
verb/bɪl/
/bɪl/
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they bill | /bɪl/ /bɪl/ |
| he / she / it bills | /bɪlz/ /bɪlz/ |
| past simple billed | /bɪld/ /bɪld/ |
| past participle billed | /bɪld/ /bɪld/ |
| -ing form billing | /ˈbɪlɪŋ/ /ˈbɪlɪŋ/ |
- to send somebody a bill for something
- bill somebody for something Please bill me for the books.
- You will be billed monthly for the service.
- bill somebody We are changing the way that we bill our customers.
- bill somebody something He only billed me £130.
- bill something to somebody/something The cost will be billed to your account.
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- [usually passive] to advertise or describe somebody/something in a particular way
- be billed as something She was billed as the new Amy Winehouse.
- [usually passive] to advertise that somebody/something will do something
- be billed to do something She was billed to speak on ‘China—Yesterday and Today’.
ask for payment
advertise
Word Originverb Middle English (denoting a written list or catalogue): from Anglo-Norman French bille, probably based on medieval Latin bulla ‘seal, sealed document’.
Idioms
See bill in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybill and coo
- (old-fashioned, informal) if two people who are in love bill and coo, they kiss and speak in a loving way to each other
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