What's the difference between bill and invoice?

Bill


Definition:

  • (n.) A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.
  • (v. i.) To strike; to peck.
  • (v. i.) To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness.
  • (n.) The bell, or boom, of the bittern
  • (n.) A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle; -- used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. When short, called a hand bill, when long, a hedge bill.
  • (n.) A weapon of infantry, in the 14th and 15th centuries. A common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the top, and attached to the end of a long staff.
  • (n.) One who wields a bill; a billman.
  • (n.) A pickax, or mattock.
  • (n.) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.
  • (v. t.) To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill.
  • (n.) A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.
  • (n.) A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document.
  • (n.) A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
  • (n.) A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods; a placard; a poster; a handbill.
  • (n.) An account of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; a statement of a creditor's claim, in gross or by items; as, a grocer's bill.
  • (n.) Any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc.
  • (v. t.) To advertise by a bill or public notice.
  • (v. t.) To charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
  • (2) Of the five committees asked to develop bills, four have completed their work, and the Senate Finance Committee announced today that it will move forward next week.
  • (3) It helped pay the bills and caused me to ponder on the disconnection between theory and reality.
  • (4) Now, as the Senate takes up a weakened House bill along with the House's strengthened backdoor-proof amendment, it's time to put focus back on sweeping reform.
  • (5) Polls indicated that anger over the government shutdown, which was sharply felt in parts of northern Virginia, as well as discomfort with Cuccinelli's deeply conservative views, handed the race to McAuliffe, a controversial Democratic fundraiser and close ally of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
  • (6) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
  • (7) In 1986, Bill Heine erected a 25ft sculpture of a shark falling through the roof of his terraced house in Oxford .
  • (8) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
  • (9) A new bill, to be published this week with the aim of turning it into law by next month, will allow the government to use Britain's low borrowing rates to guarantee the £40bn in infrastructure projects and £10bn for underwriting housing projects.
  • (10) The committee is chaired by John Thompson, the board's lead independent director, and includes Microsoft founder and chairman, Bill Gates, as well as other board members Chuck Noski and Steve Luczo.
  • (11) October 27, 2013 7.27pm GMT Around the league And here’s how things look elsewhere, as we head into the fourth quarter: Cowboys 13-7 Lions Browns 17-20 Chiefs Dolphins 17-20 Patriots Bills 10-28 Saints Giants 15-0 Eagles 49ers 35-10 Jaguars 7.25pm GMT End of 3rd quarter: 49ers 35-10 Jaguars The quarter ends with the Jaguars facing a third-and-one at their own 32.
  • (12) Wharton feared that if his bill had not cleared the Commons on this occasion, it would have failed as there are only three sitting Fridays in the Commons next year when the legislation could be heard again should peers in the House of Lords successfully pass amendments.
  • (13) Private landowners are able to use property guardians to minimise their tax bills and, although it is hard to estimate, the potential financial loss to councils is substantial.
  • (14) "We must be clear that there can be no letup in our efforts to seek ways to remove Bill Walker from parliament," Rennie said.
  • (15) Both of these bills include restrictions on moving terrorists into our country.” The White House quickly confirmed the president would have to sign the legislation but denied this meant that its upcoming plan for closing Guantánamo was, in the words of one reporter, “dead on arrival”.
  • (16) He has also been a vocal opponent of gay marriage, appearing on the Today programme in the run-up to the same-sex marriage bill to warn that it would "cause confusion" – and asking in a Spectator column, after it was passed, "if the law will eventually be changed to allow one to marry one's dog".
  • (17) It is understood that Labor, the Greens and the crossbench will seek to remove many of these additional measures, leaving the bill focused on the visa issue.
  • (18) As a member of the state Assembly, Walker voted for a bill known as the Woman’s Right to Know Act, which required physicians to provide women with full information prior to an abortion and established a 24-hour waiting period in the hope that some women might change their mind about undergoing the procedure.
  • (19) The court hearing – in a case of the kind likely to be heard in secret if the government's justice and security bill is passed – was requested by the law firm Leigh Day and the legal charity Reprieve, acting for Serdar Mohammed, tortured by the Afghan security services after being transferred to their custody by UK forces.
  • (20) Earlier this week the Obama administration said it would veto the bill unless major amendments were made.

Invoice


Definition:

  • (n.) A written account of the particulars of merchandise shipped or sent to a purchaser, consignee, factor, etc., with the value or prices and charges annexed.
  • (n.) The lot or set of goods as shipped or received; as, the merchant receives a large invoice of goods.
  • (v. t.) To make a written list or account of, as goods to be sent to a consignee; to insert in a priced list; to write or enter in an invoice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bill Shorten has told the union royal commission he would “never be a party to issuing bogus invoices” as he rejected assertions that payments from employers to the Australia Workers’ Union created conflicts of interest during wage negotiations.
  • (2) Speaking in a debate in Westminster Hall on Tuesday, Kawczynski said: "What these employees are being told, some of whom have worked for the organisation for many years, is that if they do not set up their own companies and invoice the BBC through these companies, their contracts will be terminated.
  • (3) Jim Devine, Labour MP for Livingston, was reportedly under investigation for invoices he submitted for electrical work worth more than £2,000 from a company with an allegedly fake address and an invalid VAT number.
  • (4) Their story involves a fraudster who posed as their builder, set up a copycat email address and even managed to mock up an incredibly realistic fake invoice.
  • (5) A set time-limit for settling invoices must surely be introduced, with fines for failing to pay up without reasonable cause.
  • (6) Founder and project director Liz McDowell explains that, unlike a grant where you receive the money up front or in instalments, earned income means issuing invoices and being paid afterwards – and after paying for much of the related outgoings, just as a business does.
  • (7) One-time mining magnate Nathan Tinkler's Buildev Group paid $66,000, the Gazal family's development company Gazcorp paid $137,000, and the Obeid-linked Australian Water Holdings (AWH) paid $137,000 for fake services invoiced by EightByFive, the inquiry has heard.
  • (8) GFHC, a subsidiary of the Bahrain-based investment bank Gulf Finance House, accuse the former Leeds managing director of fraud and embezzlement, with detailed documents alleging he fabricated at least 55 invoices to secure payments to five different bank accounts, two in Dubai and three in the UK.
  • (9) Between 2010 and 2013 (after Shorten had left the union leadership) the Victorian branch issued Winslow with several invoices bearing a description of “providing OHS [occupational health and safety] training” – but these invoices were subsequently corrected to reflect the fact that their purpose was also “membership fees”.
  • (10) I would never be party to issuing any bogus invoices, full stop,” Shorten said in response to questions about $300,000 in payments from Thiess John Holland to the AWU’s Victorian branch and national office between 2005 and 2008.
  • (11) Did Platini finally decide it was about time he nagged for the money or did Blatter suddenly discover the yellowing invoices on Platini-headed paper, buried for nearly a decade at the bottom of his in-tray?
  • (12) Page after page of invoices lay out the financial record of the operations, including catering bills, crew costs, flight planning charges, overflight permissions and other assorted mechanisms that made the programme as a whole possible.
  • (13) Accounts Payable reports are interfaced with the general ledger and are of interest for transaction detail, open invoice and cash flow analysis, and for a record of payments by vendor.
  • (14) The company paid the AWU $300,000, and Shorten faced questions about the validity of AWU invoices to the company when he appeared before the royal commission in July.
  • (15) The list includes disputing or delaying payment of invoices for more than 120 days; cutting a product's price and then demanding compensation to maintain the profit margin; and demanding upfront payments in exchange for hitting sales targets that do not materialise.
  • (16) The invoices also show the aircraft flying in and out of Bucharest, where one of the CIA's secret prisons is now known to have been located.
  • (17) Till now in the theory over the cause of EPH-syndrom the predominate recently compiled comprehensive summary was; the proper body pressure substances--especially from the renin Angiotensin system--after chronical invoices it was decides diminished uterus blood flow appeared.
  • (18) These purchases were not secret within the News of the World office: they were openly paid for by the accounts department with invoices which itemised illegal acts.
  • (19) We pay 90% of our invoices on time and, where this is not achieved, the most significant factor is receiving the invoices late from the supplier,” a spokesman said.
  • (20) While many of those flights may not have been involved in rendition operations, the researchers behind the project have drawn on testimony from detainees, Red Cross reports, courtroom evidence, flight records and invoices to show that at least 144 were entering the UK while suspected of being engaged in rendition operations.