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Billing
//ˈbɪlɪŋ// name, noun, verb
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname. countable, uncountable
- 2 A civil parish in West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, previously in Northampton borough, which includes Great Billing and Little Billing. countable, uncountable
Noun
- 1 Amounts billed. countable, uncountable
- 2 request for payment of a debt wordnet
- 3 Accounts receivable. countable, uncountable
- 4 The tracking of bills and amounts owed; the department within an institution or business that deals with the tracking of bills and amounts owed. countable, uncountable
- 5 The act or situation of including someone or something among those that make up a complete list. countable, uncountable
"Actors that may have higher status in the industry won't always get top billing: if they only played a bitpart then it would go to the person whose character was the main focus of the movie."
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of bill form-of, gerund, participle, present
Etymology
From the Old English surname, named after Billing in Liverpool, from bil (“double-edged sword”).
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