Talk:bill

In the UK at least, the word bill is used (very frequently) of invoices of all kinds (gas bill, electricity bill, water bill, phone bill...) so it would be wrong to say "usually in a restaurant" - so I have removed that wording. If you want to put in that qualification, perhaps it should be "in the US, this usually refers to a restaurant bill" or something of that kind.

In the US, the general meaning is prevalent, not resturants only. --Connel MacKenzie 01:04, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

On your bill

What about being on your bill? Meaning to be by yourself. That should be in somewhere, I have no idea where though.

What region is this for? Is on your bill a UKism? --Connel MacKenzie 01:04, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

Never heard of it (but there is on one's tod). Equinox ◑ 04:25, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

Derived terms from Chambers 1908

Possibly dated, or sum of parts:

• bill-book: a book used in commerce in which an entry is made of all bills accepted and received.
• bill-broker: a person who, being skilled in the money-market, the state of mercantile and personal credit, and the rates of exchange, engages, either on his own account or that of his employer, in the purchase and sale of foreign and inland bills of exchange and promissory notes.
• The business of bill-discounters, or discount-brokers consists of discounting or advancing the amount of bills of exchange and notes which have some time to run before they come due, on the faith of the credit of the parties to the bill.
• There's also Bill Chamber, covered on Wikipedia, which could perhaps use an entry here.

Equinox ◑ 04:24, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

$100

one hundred dollars, or a piece of paper money worth one hundred dollars (slang)
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--Backinstadiums (talk) 16:43, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

That’s interesting as we have bills meaning J$100 already, I didn’t know it could mean $100 U.S but in the British TV series ‘Top Boy’ and its sequel ‘Top Boy:Summerhouse’ some MLE speakers use bills to mean £100s, I’m not sure whether they would use bill or bills to mean £100 though (the singular form could be bills with an invariant plural form like in Jamaica, in other words.). Overlordnat1 (talk) 10:18, 11 March 2022 (UTC)