billed

[bild]

adjective

1. having a bill or beak, especially one of a specified kind, shape, color, etc. (usually used in combination).

   a yellow-billed magpie.

Other Word Forms

• unbilled adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of billed¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; bill ², -ed ³

Example Sentences

The speech had been billed as an attempt to define what he stands for - and he spoke about his working class background and plans for "national renewal".

From BBC

California has billed Arbor — and the handful of other similarly aimed projects it’s financed — as a win-win-win: wildfire mitigation, clean energy and carbon sequestration all in one.

From Los Angeles Times

“She came out to schmooze with the customers, and I went, “This is the one,’” said Siegel, who hails from what he billed “the Jewish Alps” — the Catskill Mountains in New York.

From Los Angeles Times

But instead of getting to sing their songs individually, the three were grouped into what was billed as a “Lilith Fair Tribute” and had to perform a medley.

From Salon

It is billed as a luxury home, offering "kind, compassionate and specialist" dementia care, and it costs up to £1,800 per week to live there.

From BBC