to bill
- verb
- /bɪl/
- After the service, the restaurant will bill you for your meal.
- bill the client
- billed separately
- bill for hours
Or the price you are actually billed to have your father officially declared dead.
- Or the price you are actually billed to have your father officially declared dead.
- And historically they have been financially sound enough to not have to create assessments where they bill the owners.
- And also I try not to call them because every time I do, they bill me.
- I knew like, OK, how much of the paralegals bill, I know how much each, each, each seat will bill.
- But you, you build on that, you know, you bill, bill, bill over a number of years, you know, so then being, oh, sorry.
Examples
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As a result, clients were getting billed late and were refusing to pay.
Academic text (1993) -
Of course I'll still have to bill you for this.
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So you want me to bill you?
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You gonna bill me or what?
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I'll bill you for my bike later.
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Well, what do you want me to do, bill you more for the other two loads? I asked.
Academic text (1998) -
However, some physicians are only using one code to bill for all levels of intensity.
Academic text (1993) -
If the services are billed separately, then they are not part of the audit.
Academic text (2003) -
Cash management strategies can ensure that what is billed is properly filed, pursued, and collected.
Academic text (1993) -
They can bill me.
Synonyms
Ask someone to pay money for goods or services
To send a bill for products or services
Antonyms
Idioms
An official statement that a person or thing is healthy and has no serious problems
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Formal
A written list of the main freedoms people have in a country's constitution
- Formal
A proposal that lets the government spend public money for a specific purpose
An official report that says a person, project, or group is well and able to continue
- Formal
Written paper that shows one person sells a thing like a car to another who becomes the owner
A paper or email that shows how much you must pay each month for services like electricity
- Specialized
A short-term loan to the U.S. government that you buy for less and the government repays within one year
- Specialized
A short-term government loan sold for less than its value and repaid at full value without interest
- Formal
An official document showing a transport company has received goods and saying how and when they will be delivered
- Formal
A written charge by a government lawyer saying someone committed a crime
- Jargon
A paper saying a group of citizens found enough evidence to charge someone with a crime
- Formal
A law that declares a person guilty and punishes them without a trial
- Formal
A written list that the prosecution gives to show the specific charges and facts about what the accused did
- US
A law that makes people pay a small deposit for drink containers and get it back when they recycle them
- Formal
A court action asking the same court to change or reverse its previous decision
- Indian
An official paper that lists goods coming into or leaving a country for customs
- Formal
A written order telling one person or bank to pay money to another at a set time
- Specialized
A document that makes one company responsible for goods moved by two or more kinds of transport
- Specialized
A paper showing the goods stay on the same ship without transfer
- Formal
A document that covers goods carried by two or more types of transport under one contract
- Specialized
A small plant with fern-like leaves, pink flowers, and a long beak-like seed pod
- New Zealand
A plant from New Zealand that stays green all year with beak-shaped red or white flowers
- Specialized
A shipping document that covers a journey using more than one kind of transport
How Forceful
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bill as a verb meaning 'to charge someone' comes from the noun sense of a note meaning 'written paper' that shows money owed. So to bill someone is to send a written request for payment.