Difference between Bill and Invoice

What is the difference between Bill and Invoice?

Bill as a verb is to dig, chop, etc., with a bill. while Invoice as a verb is to bill; to issue an invoice

Bill

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To dig, chop, etc., with a bill. To peck. To stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness. To advertise by a bill or public notice. To charge; to send a bill to.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially 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. A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. Somebody armed with a bill; a bill-man. The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke. The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a turtle, platypus, or other animal. A beak-like projection, especially a promontory. A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.) A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.) A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law. 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. A piece of paper money; a banknote. A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice. 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. 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. A bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.

Example sentence: My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.

Invoice

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to bill; to issue an invoice

Part of speech: noun

Definition: a bill; a commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer indicating the products, quantities and agreed prices for products or services that the seller has already provided the buyer with. An invoice indicates that, unless paid in advance, payment is due by the buyer to the seller, according to the agreed terms.

We hope you now know whether to use Bill or Invoice in your sentence.

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