fill the bill

1. 1.

   be what is needed or be good enough for what is required

   “Does this restaurant fit the bill for the celebration?”

   Synonymsfit the bill

   Broaderfit

Questions about fill the bill

What does fill the bill mean?

fill the bill means "be what is needed or be good enough for what is required".

What is another word for fill the bill?

Close synonyms include fit the bill. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fill the bill a common word?

fill the bill 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.