bill of sale
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3.7
- noun
- /bɪl əv seɪl/
- Formal
:
factura de venta
- To complete the transaction, please fill out the bill of sale with your details.
We signing contracts in the bill of sale, so if it sucks, I'm screwed, but if it's amazing, then that's great.
- We signing contracts in the bill of sale, so if it sucks, I'm screwed, but if it's amazing, then that's great.
Examples
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The bill of sale from Rand and Goodbody for the stones.
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I want all your records for the past five years: Shipping orders, inventories, bills of sale, the works.
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I have a bill of sale.
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All I need is your name and address for the bill of sale.
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I'm sure that he can find the bill of sale for the horse.
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According to the bill of sale from a New York dealer no longer in existence, William Draper had paid $400 for the portrait in 1936.
Fiction book (2001) -
So this is a bill of sale for a, for a house, I guess, where David Ox is selling his house and all that he has in this place to Isaac Dukeman.
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Nonetheless, she did eventually sign a bill of sale declaring, "Seller believes the Works on Paper are genuine and authentic artworks created by Georgia O'Keeffe."
Academic text (2007) -
Before finalizing the purchase, we signed a bill of sale to confirm the transfer of ownership.
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He provided a bill of sale as proof that he had legally bought the boat.
Synonyms
2
8.2
A legal document that transfers property to new owners
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2.8
A written contract where a seller transfers ownership of a house or car to a buyer for an agreed price
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3.3
A legal agreement between a buyer and a seller that explains the terms of a sale
A signed document that transfers land or a house from one person to another
How Formal
- Formal
152
5.8
- Formal
2
8.2
- Formal
11
5.3
- Formal
7
3.7
355
3.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a written document that transfers ownership' is directly derivable from combining 'bill' (a document) with 'sale' (the act/transaction of selling): a bill of sale is literally a document concerning a sale and evidencing transfer. This compositional noun+of+noun pattern is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the MWE's meaning (even if it is a more formal/legal term).
Etymology
Bill of sale comes from the old use of bill for a written paper and sale for an act of selling. Picture a seller writing a short paper that records who sold an item to whom; that paper served as proof and so became the document that 'transfers ownership'.