Bill Consolidate

–noun

1.	a statement of money owed for goods or services supplied: He paid the hotel bill when he checked out.

2.	a piece of paper money worth a specified amount: a ten-dollar bill.

3.	Government. a form or draft of a proposed statute presented to a legislature, but not yet enacted or passed and made law.

4.	bill of exchange.

5.	a written or printed public notice or advertisement.

6.	any written paper containing a statement of particulars: a bill of expenditures.

7.	Law. a written statement, usually of complaint, presented to a court.

8.	Slang. one hundred dollars: The job pays five bills a week.

9.

playbill.

10.	entertainment scheduled for presentation; program: a good bill at the movies.

11.	Obsolete. a. a promissory note. b. a written and sealed document. c. a written, formal petition.

–verb (used with object)

12.	to charge for by bill; send a bill to: The store will bill me.

13.	to enter (charges) in a bill; make a bill or list of: to bill goods.

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14.	to advertise by bill or public notice: A new actor was billed for this week.

15.	to schedule on a program: The management billed the play for two weeks.

—Idiom

16.	fill the bill, to fulfill the purpose or need well: As a sprightly situation comedy this show fills the bill.

–verb (used with object)

1.	to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.

2.	to discard the unused or unwanted items of and organize the remaining: She consolidated her home library.

3.	to make solid or firm; solidify; strengthen: to consolidate gains.

4.	Military. to strengthen by rearranging the position of ground combat troops after a successful attack.

–verb (used without object)

5.	to unite or combine.

6.	to become solid or firm.

–adjective

7.	consolidated (def. 2).