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noun

Invoice n.

(Com.) A written account of the particulars of merchandise shipped or sent to a purchaser, consignee, factor, etc., with the value or prices and charges annexed.

The lot or set of goods as shipped or received; as, the merchant receives a large invoice of goods.

verb

Invoice v. t. (past & past part. invoiced; pres. part. invoicing) To make a written list or account of, as goods to be sent to a consignee; to insert in a priced list; to write or enter in an invoice. "Goods, wares, and merchandise imported from Norway, and invoiced in the current dollar of Norway."

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— Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau • Honore de Balzac

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— Business Hints for Men and Women • Alfred Rochefort Calhoun

... heralded by the arrival at the port of New York of a mountain of freight, described in the invoice as the property of Doctor Hiero Glyphic of New Jersey. The boxes, as they stood piled together on the wharf, might have furnished timber sufficient to build a town. They contained the fruits of ...

— Idolatry - A Romance • Julian Hawthorne

... while having that name on the front of both buildings, it might not be a bad idea, for business as well as sentimental reasons, to keep the old signs at the tops of both, just as they now are. Those are little details to discuss later; but as the stock of the new company, based upon the present invoice values of our respective concerns, would be practically all in your hands and mine, this would be a very amicable and easily arranged matter. I tell you, Mr. Burnit, this is a tremendous plan, attractive to the public and immensely ...

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... word from the Chinese Foreign Office," he said, "that the Russian Government has been overturned!" He had no details, just the mere fact, but the shock was so great that we forgot all about our visit to the consul, forgot our intention to obtain an invoice; all we wanted to do was get off and talk it over! We flew back to the hotel, simply bursting with the news! It's so exciting, in this old, barbaric city, to hear such news as that, so casually, from your minister! No one in the hotel to talk to,—three o'clock, a bad hour! ...

— Peking Dust • Ellen N. La Motte

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