"foot the bill" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: foots the bill [present, singular, third-person], footing the bill [participle, present], footed the bill [participle, past], footed the bill [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} foot the bill (third-person singular simple present foots the bill, present participle footing the bill, simple past and past participle footed the bill)
  1. (idiomatic) To pay for something. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-foot_the_bill-en-verb-sYChFTMK Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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