Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A document giving details and instructions relating to a shipment of goods.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A list of the names of passengers who are carried in a public conveyance, or the description of goods sent with a common carrier by land.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A list of passengers in a public vehicle, or of the baggage or gods transported by a common carrier on a land route. When the goods are transported by water, the list is called a
bill of lading .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
document that lists the finaldestination (and other details) of each part of acargo .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a receipt given by the carrier to the shipper acknowledging receipt of the goods being shipped and specifying the terms of delivery
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Protest Letter to a shipping company must be presented within the time stipulated on the Bill of Lading, truck or air waybill, which is normally within three days of taking delivery of the consignment.
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Bill's "waybill" on behalf of the township, with a gold pencil presented to her by the Stage Company -- Bones 'joy, far from knowing no bounds, seemed to know nothing but them, and he witnessed it apparently in the air.
Selected Stories of Bret Harte Bret Harte 1869
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And also funded construction of all the airports and other aviation infrastructure from general taxes, instead of charging most of those costs to airlines and passengers in the form of landing fees, passenger facility charges, freight waybill taxes, and other forms of user fee. charles Says:
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Currently the bulk of these revenues come from passenger ticket taxes of various forms, a cargo waybill tax and some fuel taxes.
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If using a courier, please staple a copy of the air waybill to the ballot envelope prior to sealing the courier envelope.
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Commercial Courier: Some states will also accept a commercial courier service waybill as evidence of submission from outside the U.S.
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Bill called me from his truck because he had a package on board and, knowing I had moved, he wanted to get my new address (my cell phone number was on the waybill).
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If using a courier, please staple a copy of the air waybill to the ballot envelope prior to sealing the courier envelope.
Waiting for your ballot? You can still vote in the US elections 2008
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Commercial Courier: Some states will also accept a commercial courier service waybill as evidence of submission from outside the U.S.
Waiting for your ballot? You can still vote in the US elections 2008
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San Francisco Music Vibes of the 2000's by sandra waybill
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