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

Shoeless Joe’s saga got second billing Tuesday after Pete Rose’s reinstatement from his long and storied battle to get into the Hall. —Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2025

Among the many, many things wrong with the new plan is that the fees would show up on your property tax bill so the city doesn’t have to pay for billing. —Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2025

Meanwhile, hospitals would continue marking up discounted 340B drugs—and billing insurers and employers for them at full price. —Sally Pipes, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025

All of these prices reflect a $10 discount for paperless billing and automatic payments from a bank account. —Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 25 Apr. 2025

Word History

Etymology

bill entry 5

First Known Use

1875, 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