phone bill
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1.0
- noun
- /foʊn bɪl/
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factura de teléfono
- She was surprised to see the phone bill included charges for international calls.
- pay the phone bill
- check the phone bill
- phone bill charges
You could pay in advance a few years of let's say your gas bill, your electric bill, your phone bill and so on.
- You could pay in advance a few years of let's say your gas bill, your electric bill, your phone bill and so on.
- Now the money you earn with Airtime Rewards gets put back to your mobile phone bill.
- Like a Netflix subscription, Costco membership, phone bill, you name it.
- And so it's like, all right, I have food, rent, phone bill, this and this.
- I I hate my phone bill.
- Other than the fact that the federal government has your phone bills, what disadvantages are you asking me to weigh?
- I think financial success is just not worrying if you can make your, your bills, if you can pay, you know, your phone bill or the electricity bill and things like that.
- they haven't paid their phone bill or whatever and they've got financial issues or they've got health like other health issues.
- You know, obviously you've got energy to be able to council tax your mobile phone bill, your water bill, pay TV like Sky and so on.
Examples
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Who pays the phone bill around here?
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Car insurance, food, and phone bills look like the best places to cut from this budget.
Blog text (28) -
-Did you pay the phone bill?
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I could check the cell phone bill.
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Who do you think is gonna pay that phone bill?
Fiction book (2002) -
Go ahead and pull out your phone bill and take a look.
Blog text (32) -
But yeah, the phone bill is high, as are the stress levels.
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Why don't you pay your phone bill.
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One of the easiest ways to save on your phone bill is to examine your necessities.
Blog text (14) -
But this phone bill, it itemized every single text message that I sent and received the itemization.
Synonyms
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1.0
A paper telling you how much you must pay
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1.2
A paper or online statement that shows how much you owe for phone service
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a statement showing charges for telephone service' is directly compositional from 'phone' (telephone) + 'bill' (a document listing money owed), so a learner who knows both words can infer it. This is a common, literal compound pattern found across languages and follows standard noun + noun billing constructions, making it easily understood at B1.
Etymology
Phone bill comes from joining phone and bill, where a bill is the paper that shows what you must pay. When phone companies started charging people for calls and service, they sent a bill with the costs, so phone bill came to mean 'a statement showing the charges for telephone service over a period of time'.