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say it: bil
bill is a noun and verb meaning "a statute in draft before it becomes law". It carries 13 recorded senses.
a statute in draft before it becomes law
“they held a public hearing on the bill”
law
an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered
“he paid his bill and left”
“send me an account of what I owe”
a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank)
“he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes”
the entertainment offered at a public presentation
a list of particulars (as a playbill or bill of fare)
advertise especially by posters or placards
“He was billed as the greatest tenor since Caruso”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bill come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.