BILL OF HEALTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bill of health mean? 

• BILL OF HEALTH (noun)
  The noun BILL OF HEALTH has 1 sense:

1. a certificate saying that a departing ship's company is healthy (to be presented at the next port of arrival)

  Familiarity information: BILL OF HEALTH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BILL OF HEALTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A certificate saying that a departing ship's company is healthy (to be presented at the next port of arrival)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("bill of health" is a kind of...):

certificate; certification; credential; credentials (a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts)