Bill split - 英语词汇详解

Meaning 1：shared payment (Bill split)

Bill split 🔊

/bɪl splɪt/

n./v. phr.

When friends share the cost of a meal or drinks at a restaurant by dividing the total bill.

shared payment 🔊

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/ʃɛrd ˈpeɪmənt/

n./v. phr.

To divide the total cost of a meal or drinks equally or proportionally among the people who shared them.

📁 Category：Behaviors & Actions 🔖 Level：Intermediate

📘 Details & Usage

📖 Root Explanation

Bill from Latin 'bulla' (document); split from Dutch 'splitten' (to separate).

💡 Mnemonic

Picture scissors cutting a restaurant bill in half, each person taking their own piece.

📖 Example

After a fun dinner with friends, we did a bill split so everyone paid their fair share. 🔊 After a pleasant dinner with friends, we split the bill so that each person paid their equitable portion.

🔗 Collocations

bill split app – An application that calculates and divides the bill among a group.

request a bill split – To ask the restaurant or group to divide the total charge.

automatic bill split – A feature that divides the bill without manual calculation.

🔄 Synonyms

cost division (n.) – The act of dividing expenses among multiple people.

expense sharing (n.) – Sharing the cost of something, especially a meal, among participants.

🚫 Antonyms

pay the whole bill (v. phr.) – To cover the entire cost by oneself instead of splitting.

treat someone (v. phr.) – To pay for another person's share as a gesture of generosity.

🌱 Derivatives

split the bill (v. phr.) – To divide the cost of a meal or service.

bill splitting (n.) – The act or process of dividing a bill.

📖 Cultural Story

The phrase became popular in 19th-century American dining culture, symbolizing fairness and independence among friends sharing expenses.