INVOICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does invoice mean? 

• INVOICE (noun)
  The noun INVOICE has 1 sense:

1. an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered

  Familiarity information: INVOICE used as a noun is very rare.

• INVOICE (verb)
  The verb INVOICE has 1 sense:

1. send an bill to

  Familiarity information: INVOICE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INVOICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

account; bill; invoice

Context example:

send me an account of what I owe

Hypernyms ("invoice" is a kind of...):

financial statement; statement (a document showing credits and debits)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "invoice"):

electric bill (a bill for money owed for electricity used)

hotel bill (statement of charges for staying in a hotel)

doctor's bill; medical bill (statement of charges for medical services)

phone bill; telephone bill (statement of charges for telephone service)

reckoning; tally (a bill for an amount due)

tax bill (money owed for taxes)

check; chit; tab (the bill in a restaurant)

Derivation:

invoice (send an bill to)

• INVOICE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they invoice    ... he / she / it invoices   
Past simple: invoiced   
Past participle: invoiced   
-ing form: invoicing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Send an bill to

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

She invoiced the company for her expenses

Hypernyms (to "invoice" is one way to...):

bill; charge (demand payment)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

invoice (an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered)

 Context examples 

A computer-based tracking and submission system for statements, bills, invoices, and related information corresponding to the payment for goods or services.

(Electronic Billing System, NCI Thesaurus)

We know all about where he go; for we have seen the owner of the ship, who have shown us invoices and all papers that can be.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Integrated computer systems that are used in the laboratory for the management of samples, laboratory users, instruments, standards and other laboratory functions such as invoicing, plate management, and work flow automation.

(Laboratory Information Management System, NCI Thesaurus)

He, too, put me at once in communication with the proper officials, and I saw that their tally was correct with the original invoice.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I saw the invoice, and took note of it: "Fifty cases of common earth, to be used for experimental purposes."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Herewith please receive invoice of goods sent by Great Northern Railway.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He can't hurt those big boxes: they are invoiced as "clay," and to pull them about is as harmless a thing as he can do.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

As to the first, he evidently intended to arrive at Galatz, and sent invoice to Varna to deceive us lest we should ascertain his means of exit from England; his immediate and sole purpose then was to escape.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)