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

Dominik Szoboszlai also cost £60m and hasn’t fully lived up to his billing despite a strong 2024/25 campaign. —Graham Ruthven, Forbes.com, 25 May 2025

That billing has now been changed, perhaps for legal reasons, to TV Smith. —George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 May 2025

Other subscription options include Hulu (No Ads) for $17.99 to $20.99 per month; the best deal is through the annual plans, which offer a 16 percent savings compared to month-to-month billing. —Danielle Directo-Meston, HollywoodReporter, 21 May 2025

Clift and data reporter Phillip Reese were honored with a second-place housing and land-use award for a story about the city billing property owners for sidewalk repairs. —Sacbee.com, 21 May 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