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 is being funded by money recovered from the hospital's initial billing remediation process. —Adam Harrington, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026

Eldridge has lived up to that billing, especially on Wednesday night during Professional Women’s Hockey League action at the Tsongas Center. —Jason Cooke, Boston Herald, 16 Apr. 2026

As treasurer-tax collector, Freidenrich, who was elected in 2010, is the county’s banker, responsible for billing, collecting and safeguarding taxpayer dollars. —Claire Wang, Oc Register, 15 Apr. 2026

During a tense news conference the following week, Prasad told reporters he was forced to close the hospital because of problems with its billing system that led to the hospital not being able to collect many payments for about a year. —Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 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