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Bill Person Event Thing Advertise Makes Qualities Abilities

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If you b___ a person or event as a particular thing, you advertise them in a way that makes people think they have particular qualities or abilities.If you bill a person or event as a particular thing, you advertise them in a way that makes people think they have particular qualities or abilities.
They bill it as Britain's most exciting museum.
word bill
full-definition
noun
A bill is a written statement of money that you owe for goods or services.
They couldn't afford to pay the bills.
He paid his bill for the newspapers promptly.
...phone bills.
The bill in a restaurant is a piece of paper on which the price of the meal you have just eaten is written and which you are given before you pay.
A bill is a piece of paper money.
...a large quantity of U.S. dollar bills.
In government, a bill is a formal statement of a proposed new law that is discussed and then voted on.
This is the toughest crime bill that Congress has passed in a decade.
The bill was approved by a large majority.
The bill of a show or concert is a list of the entertainers who will take part in it.
A bird's bill is its beak.
verb
If you bill someone for goods or services you have provided them with, you give or send them a bill stating how much money they owe you for these goods or services.
Are you going to bill me for this?
If someone is billed to appear in a particular show, it has been advertised that they are going to be in it.
She was billed to play the Red Queen in Snow White.
...their quarrels over star billing.
If you bill a person or event as a particular thing, you advertise them in a way that makes people think they have particular qualities or abilities.
They bill it as Britain's most exciting museum.
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