billing
Americannoun
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the relative position in which a performer or act is listed on handbills, posters, etc..
A star usually receives billing above the title of the play.
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advertising; publicity.
The show was a sellout weeks ahead of the opening because of advance billing.
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the amount of business done by a firm, especially an advertising agency, within a specified period of time.
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an act or instance of preparing or sending out a bill or invoice.
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the total amount of the cost of goods or services billed to a customer, usually covering purchases made or services rendered within a specified period of time.
noun
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theatre the relative importance of a performer or act as reflected in the prominence given in programmes, advertisements, etc
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public notice or advertising (esp in the phrase advance billing )
Etymology
Origin of billing
Example Sentences
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Billing records show the state’s Medicaid program paid the company about $91,000 per patient for 123 children in 2023, making it the 17th-highest-paid autism therapy provider nationwide by that measure.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
With the numbers continuing to rise, "it is really a deepening humanitarian crisis that we here on the ground are seeing in Lebanon," said Karolina Lindholm Billing, the agency's representative in the country.
From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026
Residents at Billing Aquadrome Holiday Park, where a major incident has been declared, slept at an evacuation centre overnight on Monday.
From BBC • Nov. 26, 2024
Matthew August Jeffers’ Billing, Caleb Eberhardt’s Hovstad and Thomas Jay Ryan’s Aslaksen have more gray area to maneuver in before revealing their cowardly colors.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2024
Billing went to jail, but no one ever arrested the good things he had released.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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