Usually means: Payment or record of charges.
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We found 59 dictionaries that define the word tab:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. tab: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tab: Merriam-Webster
  3. TAB, tab, tab, tab, tab, tab, tab: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tab, tab, tab: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tab, tab: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tab: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tab, tab: Wordnik
  8. tab, the tab: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Tab, tab: Wiktionary
  10. tab: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tab: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tab: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tab, tab: Dictionary.com
  14. tab (1), tab (2), tab (3): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. tab: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. TAB (Armoured Personnel Carrier), TAB (armoured personnel carrier), TAB (disambiguation), TAB, Tab (GUI), Tab (album), Tab (archery), Tab (beverage can), Tab (cuneiform), Tab (debating), Tab (disambiguation), Tab (drink), Tab (interface), Tab (soft drink), Tab, The Tab: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Tab: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. tab: Rhymezone
  19. Tab: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. TAB, tab: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. Tab: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. tab: FreeDictionary.org
  23. tab: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. tab, tab: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. tab, tab: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. tab-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  4. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Tab (disambiguation), tab: Legal dictionary
  3. TAB, Tab (disambiguation): Financial dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. TAB: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. tab: CCI Computer
  3. Tab (GUI), Tab (disambiguation), Tab (key), tab: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. tab: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. TAB: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  5. TAB, Tab (disambiguation): Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. TAB: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. tab: Idioms

Slang (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tab (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. tab, tab, tab, tab, tab, tab, tab, tab, tab, tab, tab, tab: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. tab: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. T.A.B: Urban Dictionary
  6. Tab: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tab: Sports Definitions

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  4. TAB: Printed Circuit Design and Manufacturing Glossary
  5. Tab: Construction Glossary
  6. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See tabbed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A small flap or strip of material attached to or inserted into something, for holding, manipulation, identification, opening etc.
noun:  (slang) An ear.
noun:  (by extension, graphical user interface) A navigational widget, resembling a physical tab, for switching between documents or sets of controls.
noun:  (graphical user interface) The page or form associated with such a navigational widget.
noun:  (British Army, military slang) A fast march or run with full kit.
verb:  (transitive) To affix with tabs; to label.
noun:  (informal, chiefly Canada, US) A restaurant bill.
noun:  (informal, chiefly Canada, US) Credit account, e.g., in a shop or bar; slate
noun:  (by extension) The cost or bill for anything.
noun:  (computing) A space character that extends to the next aligned column, traditionally used for tabulation.
verb:  (computing) To use the Tab key on a computer to advance the cursor or move the input focus, or on a typewriter to advance the carriage.
noun:  (Geordie and Mackem) A cigarette.
noun:  A form of musical notation indicating fingering rather than the pitch of notes, commonly used for stringed instruments.
noun:  (Oxbridge slang) A student of Cambridge University.
noun:  (colloquial) A tabloid newspaper.
noun:  (informal) A tablet, especially one containing illicit drugs.
noun:  (informal, theater) A tableau curtain.
noun:  (computing) A key on a computer keyboard that typically inserts a tab or moves the input focus.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of tab (“student at Cambridge”) [A small flap or strip of material attached to or inserted into something, for holding, manipulation, identification, opening etc.]

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