Billing

//ˈbɪlɪŋ// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A civil parish in West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, previously in Northampton borough, which includes Great Billing and Little Billing. countable, uncountable
Noun
  1. 1
    Amounts billed. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    request for payment of a debt wordnet
  3. 3
    Accounts receivable. countable, uncountable
  4. 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. 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. 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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