billing

1 of 2

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

billing

2 of 2

present participle of bill entry 2, bill entry 5

Examples of billing in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

Diamantis is scheduled to be tried in December on a bribery charge arising on a $95,000 payment allegedly made to him by a Bristol optometrist to use his influence to stop an audit of her Medicaid billing. — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 3 Oct. 2026

Calling my wireless carrier to fix a billing problem comes to mind. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2026

The model, trained on this patchwork, starts flagging thousands of legitimate customers as billing anomalies while missing real discrepancies buried in the messy records. — Olufunsho Peters, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Despite efforts to create buzz around the Barbie brand — including a diabetes Barbie and an autism Barbie — gross billings for Barbie products slid 11% last year, following a similar decline in 2024. — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026

Word History

Etymology

Noun

bill entry 5

First Known Use

Noun

1858, 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