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Documents

Banknote
Banknote
A banknote is a kind of negotiable instrument, a promissory note made by a bank payable to the bearer on demand, used as money, and in many jurisdictions is legal tender. In addition to coins, banknotes make up the cash or bearer forms of all modern fiat money...

, paper money
Handbill, paper leaflet
Poster
Poster
A poster is any piece of printed paper designed to be attached to a wall or vertical surface. Typically posters include both textual and graphic elements, although a poster may be either wholly graphical or wholly text. Posters are designed to be both eye-catching and informative. Posters may be...

, form of advertising
Billboard
Billboard
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

, large board on which to display advertising posters or displays
Bill (payment)
Bill (payment)
A bill or invoice is a document requesting payment for an order previously supplied. Presentation of a bill is common practice on the part of credit card companies, utilities, and other service providers...

, document requesting payment for goods or services rendered
Bill (proposed law)
Bill (proposed law)
A bill is a proposed law under consideration by a legislature. A bill does not become law until it is passed by the legislature and, in most cases, approved by the executive. Once a bill has been enacted into law, it is called an act or a statute....

, law put before a legislature
Invoice
Invoice
An invoice or bill is a commercial document issued by a seller to the buyer, indicating the products, quantities, and agreed prices for products or services the seller has provided the buyer. An invoice indicates the buyer must pay the seller, according to the payment terms...

, commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer

Bill of lading
Bill of lading
A bill of lading is a document issued by a carrier to a shipper, acknowledging that specified goods have been received on board as cargo for conveyance to a named place for delivery to the consignee who is usually identified...

, document issued by a carrier receiving goods for transport
Bill of materials
Bill of materials
A bill of materials is a list of the raw materials, sub-assemblies, intermediate assemblies, sub-components, components, parts and the quantities of each needed to manufacture an end product...

, document listing the parts needed to make a product
Bill of quantities
Bill of quantities
A bill of quantities is a document used in tendering in the construction industry in which materials, parts, and labor are itemized...

, tendering document detailing the quantities of materials needed to build a proposed construction
Operational bills, tendering document detailing the operations needed to build a proposed construction
Waybill
Waybill
A waybill or consignment note is a document issued by a carrier giving details and instructions relating to the shipment of a consignment of goods. Typically it will show the names of the consignor and consignee, the point of origin of the consignment, its destination, route, and method of...

, document describing a shipment
Menu
Menu
In a restaurant, a menu is a presentation of food and beverage offerings. A menu may be a la carte – which guests use to choose from a list of options – or table d'hôte, in which case a pre-established sequence of courses is served....

or bill of fare

Tools and weapons

Bill (weapon)
Bill (weapon)
The bill is a polearm weapon used by infantry in medieval Europe.The bill is similar in size, function and appearance to the halberd, differing mainly in the hooked blade form...

, a weapon similar to a halberd
Billhook
Billhook
The billhook is a traditional cutting tool known and used throughout the world, and very common in the wine-growing countries of Europe, used widely in agriculture and forestry The billhook (also bill hook – although this more usually refers to either a metal or plastic hook used to hold bills,...

, a long-handled saw (sometimes weapon) with a curved blade
BILL Anti-tank guided weapon, a Swedish anti-tank weapon
BILL 2 Anti-tank guided weapon
BILL 2 Anti-tank guided weapon
The BILL 2 Anti-Tank Guided Weapon is a man-portable or vehicle-mounted guided anti-tank missile using the overfly top attack method to attack the weaker parts of an armoured vehicle. The weapon is currently in service with the Swedish Army.-Design:...

, a Swedish anti-tank weapon

Other objects called 'bill'

Beak
Beak
The beak, bill or rostrum is an external anatomical structure of birds which is used for eating and for grooming, manipulating objects, killing prey, fighting, probing for food, courtship and feeding young...

, an alternative name for a bird beak
Peninsula
Peninsula
A peninsula is a piece of land that is bordered by water on three sides but connected to mainland. In many Germanic and Celtic languages and also in Baltic, Slavic and Hungarian, peninsulas are called "half-islands"....

s of land jutting out into the sea, such as 'Portland Bill'
Police
Police
The police is a personification of the state designated to put in practice the enforced law, protect property and reduce civil disorder in civilian matters. Their powers include the legitimized use of force...

, with 'old bill' as a slang term in the UK

Entertainment

Bill (Tripping Daisy album), 1992
Bill (Bill Cosby album)
Bill (Bill Cosby Album)
Bill is a compilation album of previously released material by Bill Cosby. All the routines are edited down compared to their original appearances on previous albums, some slightly, some considerably.-Track listing:#Handball At The "Y" – 3:38...

, 1973 compilation album
Meet Bill, a 2008 comedy film formerly known as Bill
Bill (1981 film), a 1981 TV movie starring Mickey Rooney
- Bill: On His Own, sequel the 1981 film
"Bill" (song), a song by Peggy Scott-Adams
Peggy Scott-Adams
Peggy Scott-Adams is an African-American soul and R&B singer. She is sometimes known by her former name as Peggy Scott, and billed as 'The Little Lady with the Big Voice'....
"Bill" (Show Boat)
Bill (Show Boat)
"Bill" is a song heard in Act II of Kern and Hammerstein's classic 1927 musical Show Boat. The song was written for Kern and P.G. Wodehouse's 1917 musical Oh, Lady! Lady!! for Vivienne Segal to perform, but withdrawn because it was considered too melancholy for that show...

, a song in the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical Show Boat
The Bill
The Bill
The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...

, a long-running British police drama
Bill (Kill Bill)
Bill (Kill Bill)
Bill is the fictional titular character for whom the movie Kill Bill is named. In the film, he is the leader of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, which included his brother, Budd . Bill's codename is Snake Charmer...

, character in the Kill Bill films

People

This section includes only individuals whose last name is Bill, or whose only generally-known name is Bill.

Bill is a common nickname for William. See William (name)

William (name)

William is a popular given name of old Germanic origin. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066, and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era...

for more information on the history of the name William. People known as Bill include:

Alfred H. Bill
Alfred H. Bill
Alfred Hoyt Bill was an American writer. His non-fiction mostly dealt with American history while his fiction was set in different periods of British and French history....

, American writer
Bill W.
Bill W.
William Griffith Wilson , also known as Bill Wilson or Bill W., was the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous , an international mutual aid fellowship with over two million members belonging to 100,800 groups of alcoholics helping other alcoholics achieve and maintain sobriety...

(Bill Wilson), co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
Charles Bill
Charles Bill
Charles Bill was a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament for the Leek division of Staffordshire from 1892 to 1906.- Early life and family :...

(1843–1915), British Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) Leek 1892–1906

Others