Billing
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈbɪlɪŋ/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Billing is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of bill.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of bill.
More Meanings
- Amounts billed.
- Accounts receivable.
- The tracking of bills and amounts owed; the department within an institution or business that deals with the tracking of bills and amounts owed.
- (chiefly film, theater) The act or situation of including someone or something among those that make up a complete list.
Example Sentences
Actors that may have higher status in the industry won't always get top billing: if they only played a bitpart then it would go to the person whose character was the main focus of the movie.
When Corbyn finally gave a speech – in a stunning piece of billing that could only happen at Glastonbury, he appeared between hip-hop duo Run the Jewels and Southampton’s foremost R&B loverman Craig David – the crowd brought the entire area around the Pyramid stage to a standstill
Word Forms
- billings
Synonyms for billing
Depending on context, synonyms include charge.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include charge, accounting, debit, invoice, turnover, pricing.
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