billing

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billing^¹

/ˈbɪlɪŋ/

Rhymes with -ɪlɪŋ

verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of bill

noun billings

countable, uncountable Amounts billed.
countable, uncountable Accounts receivable.
countable, uncountable 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 The act or situation of including someone or something among those that make up a complete list. 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.

Billing^²

Where it comes from

From the Old English surname, named after Billing in Liverpool, from bil (“double-edged sword”).

proper noun Billings

countable, uncountable A surname.
countable, uncountable A civil parish in West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, previously in Northampton borough, which includes Great Billing and Little Billing.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: charge, accounting, debit, invoice, turnover, pricing, register, payment, check-in, reckoning, receipt, collection, claim, metering, stacking, recording

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noun amount claimed

Español	facturación
한국어	청구 cheonggu
Français	facturation

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@misc{billing_2026,
  title = {billing},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/billing},
  urldate = {2026-11-05}
}