grocery bill
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgroceryandbill
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grocery
noun
uk/ˈɡrəʊ.sər.i/us/ˈɡroʊ.sɚ.i/
old-fashioned;
a ...
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bill
noun
uk/bɪl/us/bɪl/
a request for payment of money owed, or the piece of paper on which it ...
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(Definition ofgroceryandbillfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Prop. 37 would: create new government bureaucracy costing taxpayers millions, authorize expensive shakedown lawsuits against farmers and small businesses, and increase family grocery bills by hundreds of dollars per year.
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She began to speak at womens groups, sharing her budgeting techniques with other moms, teaching them how they could cut their grocery bills up to 70%.
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What will the weeklygrocerybillbe then?
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We cannot pay our own debts for rent and thegrocerybill, let alone pay this £7,000,000 to the coal-owners.
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Do you want to check, in the weeklygrocerybill, the two ounces of tobacco for the husband?
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There are arrears of rent, arrears of thegrocerybill, and arrears for the necessaries of life.
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It is an actual account, paid and stamped, agrocerybillof three weeks ago.
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In addition, as has already been mentioned, many small businesses will not be able to produce a cash income to pay the grocery bills.
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Many of them do not receive the increase in wages when their husbands get it but have to face higher grocery bills every weekend.
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Inflation to them raises just the question: will they be able to pay their grocery bills?
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Or is it simply that the grocery bills are accumulating again?
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Grocery bills will fluctuate from season to season and from place to place.
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But if employees carry the whole burden family budgets will be seriously hit in terms of their ability to pay rent, rates and grocery bills.
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That is important because in our unequal society many men in employment, and many who are not, do not give their spouses sufficient money to meet the weekly grocery bills.
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My wife has a little black book, with entries going back about three years, giving particulars of grocery bills for each week and showing the prices of each item ordered.
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The records listed several personal items including grocery bills, wine and plane tickets for his wife.
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After a couple separate, the same amount of money they had during the relationship now has to pay for two rent bills, two hydro bills and two grocery bills.
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