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  • noun Plural form of bill.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bill.

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Examples

  • You are in big financial trouble, you have only a $10 bill to your name, but your favorite congressman (whom you have given $10 bills to in the past) has given you the okay to erase that number 10 on the $bills and put whatever number on it you feel is "reasonable".

    Lehman Brothers Dies While Getting Away With Murder: Regulatory Capture 2010

  • You are in big financial trouble, you have only a $10 bill to your name, but your favorite congressman (whom you have given $10 bills to in the past) has given you the okay to erase that number 10 on the $bills and put whatever number on it you feel is "reasonable".

    Reggie Middleton: Lehman Brothers Dies While Getting Away With Murder: Regulatory Capture 2010

  • The Senate and the house of representatives shall each of them have power to originate and amend bills; save only that bills for levying money * bills* shall be originated and amended by the representatives only: the assent of both houses shall be requisite to pass a law.

    Public Papers 1775

  • The PBOC had let the three-year bill yield drop 7 bps during the period from early April through early June as investors shifted buying into longer-term bills from the short end due to their higher returns.

    FinanzNachrichten.de: Aktuelle Nachrichten 2010

  • This three-CD set is indeed what the title bills it as, with rare mono versions of several Velvet Underground LPs and singles, as well as a few items taken from acetates.

    AvaxHome RSS: 2010

  • The 5.6 per cent average rise in bills translates as a 4 per cent annual return allowed on each companies 'investment after tax.

    Top stories from Times Online 2009

  • You think people reneging on their bills is a good thing?

    Race Mixing Is Communism | My[confined]Space 2009

  • It appears even the Liberal Dems knows this bills is a piece of rubbish.

    CNN Poll: 6 point jump in support for health care bill 2009

  • When that failed, they persuaded the governor of Massachusetts to print some figures on slips of paper, which they dubbed bills of credit and compared to "the elixir or the philosopher's stone."

    At Auction Jonathon Keats 2010

  • [13] Students at Harvard College for many years paid their term bills with produce, meat, and live stock.

    A Brief History of the United States John Bach McMaster 1892

  • Container deposit-return legislation – often colloquially referred to as “bottle bills” after the 1971 Oregon Bottle Bill, the earliest American instance of this type of legislation – is present in 10 US states.

    New York's canners: the people who survive off a city's discarded cans Cecilia Watt 2020

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