billing

noun

bill·​ing ˈbi-liŋ 

1

: advertising or public promotion (as of a product or personality)

also : relative prominence of a name in such promotion

got top billing

2

: total amount of business or investments (as of an advertising agency) within a given period

Examples of billing in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This might be anything from streamlining billing clients and settling with drivers to extracting more powerful insights from the supply chain than ever before. — Satish Natarajan, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026

All told, the pending cases have cost the state more than $150,000 in legal fees, according to billing records the Star-Telegram viewed. — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 July 2026

The admission criteria, the billing codes, the length-of-stay targets — none of it accounts for the possibility that a patient’s primary presenting problem is not having enough to eat or a warm place to sleep. — Cole Hanson, STAT, 16 July 2026

Budget officials also revealed Thursday that extra payments to help shore up the city’s grossly underfunded public pensions are being threatened by late property tax billing. — A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2026

Word History

Etymology

bill entry 5

First Known Use

1858, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Phrases Containing billing

• top billing

Rhymes for billing

• chilling
• drilling
• filling
• grilling
• killing
• milling
• pilling
• rilling
• schilling
• shilling
• skilling
• spilling