billing
/ˈbɪlɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.59 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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
noun
The act or situation of including someone or something among those that make up a complete list.
Countable; Uncountable
name
A civil parish in West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, previously in Northampton borough, which includes Great Billing and Little Billing.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "When Corbyn finally gave a speech – in a stunning piece of billing that could only happen at Glastonbury, he appeared between hip-hop duo Run the Jewels and Southampton’s foremost R&B loverman Craig David – the crowd brought the entire area around the Pyramid stage to a standstill"
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Old English
Word Breakdown
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