invoice
Americannoun
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invoices
plural
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an itemized bill for goods sold or services provided, containing individual prices, the total charge, and the terms.
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the merchandise or shipment itself.
verb (used with object)
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invoices,
present (3rd person singular)
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invoiced,
past participle, past
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invoicing
present participle
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to present an invoice to.
The manufacturer invoiced us for six whiteboards.
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to present an invoice for.
five chairs invoiced and shipped last month.
verb (used without object)
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invoices,
present (3rd person singular)
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invoiced,
past participle, past
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invoicing
present participle
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to prepare or submit an invoice.
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to have a value if or when inventoried.
The merchandise in stock invoiced far more than we expected.
noun
verb
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Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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invoicesimple
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invoicessimple
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have invoicedperfect
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has invoicedperfect
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am invoicingprogressive
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are invoicingprogressive
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is invoicingprogressive
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have been invoicingperfect progressive
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has been invoicingperfect progressive
Past
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invoicedsimple
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had invoicedperfect
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was invoicingprogressive
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were invoicingprogressive
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had been invoicingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of invoice
First recorded in 1550–60; variant of invoyes, plural of obsolete invoy, variant of envoy 1
Explanation
An invoice is an itemized statement of the money that's owed for goods or services. If you buy books online, they will usually arrive with an invoice telling what books you bought and how much they cost. Invoice comes from the French verb envoyer, which means to send, and "send" is a verb often used with the noun invoice, like when the online bookstore sends you an invoice. The same sense occurs when you use invoice as a verb. If you tell someone to invoice you for work they've done, you're asking them to send you a bill.
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When that EIA average changes, it lands on the shipper’s next invoice.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
In addition to improving productivity, the company is adding AI to its products to help customers in areas such as invoice coding and expense categorization.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
The invoice from the supplier contained the details of its Chinese bank account, and noted that the $650,000 payment should be routed via a U.S.-based clearing partner in New York.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
The ban is only one month as Kyrgios has provided an invoice which shows he has paid for a treatment programme, which began on 28 August.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
He, too, put me at once in communication with the proper officials, and I saw that their tally was correct with the original invoice.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
The employee allegedly colluded with a supplier to inflate prices, with the two sharing the excess money after the company paid the invoices.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
I’ll also be checking out Folia, a planning site I heard about that helps you track just about everything including budget, invoices, guest list and seating chart.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
Hernandez included email exchanges and invoices dating back to July, demonstrating that the MBA had been paying the necessary fees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
In its lawsuit, Fresh Tape said LIV offered $200,000 to settle the unpaid invoices, citing its “current financial constraints,” and later lowered the offer to $150,000.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Herr Friedrick Thiessen receives the card in the mail, a plain envelope amongst his invoices and business correspondence.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
The city of Mesa unsuccessfully invoiced the campaign $64,477.56 for an October 2018 rally.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2024
An artist who offered me $14 an hour to be her assistant, then forgot to pay me when I invoiced.
From Slate ● May 18, 2024
Worldwide gross billings, or the amount invoiced to customers, for Mattel's Dolls segment rose 24% in constant currency for the quarter.
From Reuters ● Oct. 25, 2023
According to calculations by Federal Reserve researchers, 96% of trade in the Americas from 1999 to 2019 was invoiced in dollars, and 74% of trade in Asia.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 23, 2023
In December 1511 she made an order for a set of stringed instruments for the Ferrara court which, Holman convincingly suggests, were ‘new design’ violins, invoiced to a maestro Sebastian of Verona.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Self-employed people might postpone year-end invoicing to the following year.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026
The fintech company, which was founded in Australia in 2015, runs a financial platform that uses artificial intelligence to help businesses manage multicurrency accounts, process international payments, and run invoicing and expense systems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
While official dollar reserve holdings remain relatively stable, trade invoicing is gradually shifting toward other currencies, signaling incremental diversification in global payments.
From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026
The hosts chat about invoicing as a freelancer and getting timely paychecks.
From Slate ● Mar. 7, 2024
They were the correspondence typists; our books and invoicing had long since overflowed into the premises we had had the luck to secure on either side of us.
From Tono Bungay by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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