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heads of the bill en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (Ireland, plural, plural-only) Early draft of a bill usually agreed at cabinet but not yet published.
    • Mr. Monck Mason then a young barrister, on a motion that the heads of the bill should be committed, displayed great talents, liberality and thorough knowledge of the fundamental principles of political economy, in a luminous speech. 1813, Mathew O'Conor, The History of the Irish Catholics from the Settlement in 1691: With a View of the State of Ireland from the Invasion by Henry II, to the Revolution: