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bill
a piece of paper that tells you how much you must pay:
• Many families are struggling to pay their bills. • a credit card bill • We got a huge phone bill. • I asked the waiter to bring me the bill.
check
American English a bill that tells you how much you must pay in a restaurant:
• Can I have the check, please?
invoice
a document that lists the goods that a company has sent, or the services they have provided, and tells you how much you must pay. It is often sent from one company to another company:
• Payment is due ten days after receipt of the invoice.
tab
informal a bill that is added up at the end of a period of time, especially for food or drinks that you have had in a restaurant or hotel:
• People staying in the hotel can order food or drinks to be put on their tab.
Longman-Thesaurus
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noun showing money owed for goods/services ADJ. big, high, huge, large | outstanding, unpaid | itemized | electricity, fuel, gas, hospital, hotel, phone/telephone, etc. | tax VERB + BILL get, have Could I have the bill please? I've just got a huge tax bill. | be landed with, face The company could now face higher fuel bills. | run up We ran up a very large hotel bill. | foot, pay, pick up, settle Don't worry?the company will pick up the bill. | present sb with, send sb, submit They presented us with a very large bill. | cut, reduce We need to cut our electricity bills. PREP. on a/the ~ Are the coffees on the bill? | ~ for the bill for the meal proposal for a new law ADJ. controversial | emergency | private member's VERB + BILL bring before Parliament, bring forward/in, introduce, propose, put forward, submit The bill will be brought before Parliament next year. The government has put forward an emergency bill to limit the powers of the police. | force through, push through, railroad through, rush through The opposition will try to force the bill through Parliament. | draft, prepare | amend | debate | adopt, approve, pass | support, vote for | defeat, reject, throw out, veto | oppose, vote against | shelve, withdraw programme of entertainment ADJ. double VERB + BILL head, top Tom Jones is topping the bill. PREP. on a/the ~ Mozart is on the bill this evening.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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bill
verbs
pay a bill
• Most people pay their bills on time.
settle a bill
(= pay it )
• She went down to the lobby to settle the bill for their rooms.
foot the bill/pick up the bill
(= pay for something, especially when you do not want to )
• Taxpayers will probably have to foot the bill.
run up a bill
(= use a lot of something so that you have a big bill to pay )
• It’s easy to run up a big bill on your mobile phone.
face a bill
(= have a lot to pay on a bill )
• They were facing a mounting legal bill.
cut/reduce a bill
• We need to find a way to cut our fuel bill.
a bill comes to something
(= is for that amount )
• The bill came to $60.
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + bill
a big/huge bill
• Turn off the lights or we’ll get a huge electricity bill.
an electricity/gas/phone etc bill
• I’ll have to pay the gas bill too next month.
a hotel bill
• He paid the hotel bill by credit card.
a tax bill
• There are various ways you can reduce your tax bill.
an unpaid bill
• She had unpaid bills amounting to £3,000.
an outstanding bill
(= still unpaid )
• He still didn’t have enough to pay his outstanding bills.
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