bill of health

1. 1.

   a certificate saying that a departing ship's company is healthy (to be presented at the next port of arrival)

   Broadercertificate

Questions about bill of health

What does bill of health mean?

bill of health means "a certificate saying that a departing ship's company is healthy (to be presented at the next port of arrival)".

Is bill of health a common word?

bill of health is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.