bill sticker
- noun
- /bɪl ˈstɪkər/
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afichador
- The bill sticker worked quickly to put up new concert posters on the fence.
Examples
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The city fined the bill sticker for placing advertisements on unauthorized walls.
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Many bill stickers are hired for large events.
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In Victorian London, a bill sticker could be seen on every busy street corner.
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The bill sticker worked late into the night.
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In the bustling city, a bill sticker pasted vibrant advertisements on the walls to attract passersby.
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The bill sticker carefully positioned the colorful posters to ensure maximum visibility for the upcoming event.
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During the festival, a skilled bill sticker was seen enhancing the streets with eye-catching promotional materials.
Synonyms
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A person who puts up printed notices on walls or billboards
A person who puts up posters on walls or billboards
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'person who pastes up advertising bills' is directly derivable from 'bill' (poster/advertisement) plus 'sticker' (one who sticks/fastens), following a regular agentive/compositional pattern. This straightforward compound formation is common cross-linguistically and would be predictable to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Bill sticker comes from a simple picture of a worker who sticks paper posters on walls. Here, bill meant a public poster and sticker was the person who stuck it, so the phrase came to mean 'a person who pastes up advertising posters'.