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

Those key warning signs include low patient counts, excessive billing, staff shared across multiple companies, and supposedly terminally ill patients who were later discharged alive. —Adam Yamaguchi, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026

Only the top 2 categories each billing cycle will count towards the $150,000 cap. —Jason Stauffer, CNBC, 2 Apr. 2026

In this case, a national policy affecting 1 million Americans rests on an incomplete interpretation of a single billing code. —Diego Schaps, STAT, 1 Apr. 2026

Prasad said he was forced to close the hospital last week 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, 1 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