📚 Bill, noun.
🔉 /bɪl/ 🇬🇧
❓ Definition: A draft of a proposed law presented to parliament for discussion.
❗️ Examples:
1. A debate over the civil rights bill.
2. Within a few weeks a draft bill was presented to parliament; it had two clauses later to become sections 1 and 2 of the Act of 1916.
3. Last week, a private members' bill was presented to Parliament calling for a ban on masts near classrooms and homes.
4. The government has presented around 30 bills to the parliament, which it wants to pass rapidly during final two weeks of August.
5. I guess we can tell that we are at the dog-end when the best the Government can do is present to Parliament bills of this nature for consideration.
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