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top billing

noun
|Updated on: 1 Aug 2018

Definition of top billing

1 : prominent emphasis, featuring, or advertising
2 : the position at the top of a theatrical bill usually featuring the star's name

Examples of top billing in a Sentence

  1. despite being of epic proportions, the African famine rarely received top billing in the American press

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First Known Use of top billing

1945

in the meaning defined at sense 1

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top billing Synonyms

Synonyms

catbird seat, center stage, limelight, spotlight;

Near Antonyms

back burner;

Related Words

front burner;

attention, heed, notice;

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