HOW TO PRONOUNCE
invoice
/ˈɪnvɔɪs/
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American Pronunciation Guide · 1:03
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Use two syllables, with the vowel of boy in the second. The c represents an unvoiced s at the end, and the final e does not add a syllable.
2 syllables · Stress on syllable 1
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“She checked the invoice before filing it.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does invoice mean?
noun
- A bill; a commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer indicating the products, quantities and agreed prices for products or services that the seller has already provided the buyer with. An invoice indicates that, unless paid in advance, payment is due by the buyer to the seller, according to the agreed terms.
- The lot or set of goods as shipped or received.
- The price which a seller or dealer pays the manufacturer for goods to be sold.
More meanings (3)
noun
- A kind of receipt that serves as a tax document and sometimes also as a lottery ticket.
verb
- To bill; to issue an invoice to.
- To make an invoice for (goods or services).
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɪnvɔɪs/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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In the list as above set down will be found every positively known fact of Shakespeare’s life, lean and meager as the invoice is.
He, too, put me at once in communication with the proper officials, and I saw that their tally was correct with the original invoice.
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"So far as we are concerned, this would not be an invoice in advance," remarked Mr. West, with a shade of sadness in his voice.
He banged on to the invoice a five-pound bag of silver, then in a delicate and pretty movement, picked up a little ten-pound column of gold, and plumped it beside the silver.
“They come from the dealers', and he pays solid cash for 'em. The invoice for this lot alone was thirty-one dollars and sixty cents. There it is on the table. You can see it for yourself.”