billing
Pluralbillings (some meanings)
Pluralbillings (some meanings)
- 1The job of keeping track of the bills a business sends and the money people still owe.
Like a person who keeps a notebook of who owes money and how much.
The billing keeps track of every bill the store sends out.
She works in billing and sorts out customers' payment questions.
- 2The total money that a business has charged to its customers.
Like the total of all the price tags a store rings up in a day.
Monthly billing came to over five hundred dollars.
The company's billing dropped after they lowered their prices.
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- 3The way a performer's name is listed and ranked on a poster or in credits.
Like where your name sits on a team list: first, last, or somewhere in the middle.
She got top billing in the new movie.
The two stars shared equal billing on the film.
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- 4Present participle of bill. Use this form for an action that is happening now.
The clerk is billing the customer for last month's work.
They are billing clients at a higher rate this year.
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- 5The money that customers still owe to a business.
Like a list of friends who borrowed money from you and haven't paid it back yet.
The company's billing has grown because many clients pay late.
Their billing rose sharply as more customers bought on credit.
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billing is a form of bill
bill, verb: To ask someone to pay for something, usually by sending them a note of the cost. Full entry
- Spelling
- bill → billing: add -ing
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