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

Auditors said other warning signs for potential fraud included multiple hospices in one building, geographic clustering, low patient counts, high rates of terminally ill patients later discharged alive, excessive billing and staff shared across multiple companies. —Adam Yamaguchi, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026

Apple does not send emails threatening immediate deletion of iCloud data because of a billing issue. —Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 19 Mar. 2026

Theater owners, meanwhile, are giddy at the prospect of the double-billing. —Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 18 Mar. 2026

An online petition demanding an investigation into the utility’s billing practices had gathered more than 33,000 signatures as of Tuesday morning. —Nora O'Neill, Charlotte Observer, 17 Mar. 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