waybill

See also: way bill

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From way +‎ bill.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈweɪ.bɪl/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪbɪl
  • Hyphenation: way‧bill

Noun

waybill (plural waybills)

  1. A document that lists the final destination (and other details) of each part of a cargo.

Translations

Verb

waybill (third-person singular simple present waybills, present participle waybilling, simple past and past participle waybilled)

  1. (transitive) To provide (cargo) with a waybill document.
    • 1918, Report of the Railway Accounting Officers Association, page 76:
      [] the Association may counteract the tendency to place an embargo on the free movement of freight in order to perpetuate an inadequate system of waybilling and rewaybilling at junction points.

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