billing

noun

bill·​ing ˈbi-liŋ How to pronounce billing (audio)
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

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Credit cards Credit card interest rates are variable and directly tied to the Fed's benchmark, meaning borrowers carrying a balance will see changes within a couple of billing cycles. Mike Winters, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025 This bill, which has bipartisan support, would expand rent, utilities billing, and other routine payments to be included in your credit score development. Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025 Deploy anomaly detection across orders, usage and billing to surface leakage signals and trigger playbooks. Ranganath Taware, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025 As rumored, Carpenter returns to the desert after making her debut in 2024, now promoted up the billing after the whirlwind success of her albums Short n’ Sweet and Man’s Best Friend. Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 16 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for billing

Word History

Etymology

bill entry 5

First Known Use

1875, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of billing was in 1875

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“Billing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/billing. Accessed 23 Sep. 2025.

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