Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index A bill can be one of: paper documents used as currency (notes in British English): see Bill (currency). proposed laws put before a legislature. See Bill (proposed law), Act of Parliament another name for the beak of a bird. a type of weapon: a halberd, only on a 5 foot pole. See bill (weapon) When goods are pre-ordered or purchased without immediate payment, a bill is usually received some time later. In this context it is short for a bill of lading. Bills are issued on a regular basis for payment of prearranged services or for services rendered. eg. water bill, gas bill, credit card bill, restaurant bill. This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.