billed

American  

[bild] / bɪld /

adjective

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

   a yellow-billed magpie.

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Other Word Forms

• unbilled adjective

Etymology

Origin of billed

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

Example Sentences

The defendants billed Medicare for reimbursement payments for hospice care for patients over several years, federal officials said, but many of those patients were not terminally ill.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026

Because this speech was billed as so important, yet carried so little real news, it offers another opportunity.

From Slate • Apr. 2, 2026

The two-phase exercise, billed as the world's most ambitious of its kind, will see more than three million officials spend a year counting every person in India.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

That auction was billed as Buffett’s last for Glide but he changed his mind.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

He established the Campbell-Yates Manufacturing Company, which he billed as a firm that bought and sold everything.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson