Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The relative importance of performers as indicated by the position and type size in which their names are listed on programs, theater marquees, or advertisements.
- noun Advertising; promotion.
- noun The total amount of business done in a specific period, as by an advertising agency or a law firm.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A caressing after the fashion of doves; love-making: as, “your billings and cooings,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- Caressing; kissing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
bill . - noun Amounts
billed - noun
Accounts receivable
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun request for payment of a debt
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Examples
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He hooked up with America's sweetheart Meg Ryan while they were making Innerspace, gave a crackerjack performance in The Big Easy and cemented his above the title billing opposite Cher in Suspect.
Archive 2008-08-01 DAVID BISHOP 2008
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All the major players are back to voice them, including Hanks and Allen who, on the posters that proclaimed "the toys are back in town", got actual above the title billing, a rarity in animation at the time, but yet another aspect of name casting that's all-too overused now.
Animated Views Ben 2010
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There are several changes being made in billing for services in the endocrinology/diabetes department at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
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Frankly, I personally hate that and think this type of billing is really stupid.
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Difference in billing between male and female practitioners
Women Grow Business » Earnings Expansion (or erosion): Are You Creating Your Own Glass Ceiling? 2009
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So, to maintain quality, Bandwidth Caps and metered billing, is all about reducing the total number of hours of saturation of the network by controlling use, and making high use customers pay for the additional time they keep the network busy.
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Difference in billing between male and female practitioners
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Billing used to be scattered and took me forever, but now I just note my time in a Google Doc and at the beginning of each month, billing is magically handled for me.
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For each keyword or set of keywords, top billing is auctioned off to the highest bidder, depending upon time of day, geographical location or other factors, and can range from one penny per click to more than $20 per click.
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The notion that lawyers should be more willing to do “pro-bono work” and be less concerned about billing is offensive in the extreme.
Meeting the Man Behind “Lawyers are Rats” : Law is Cool 2008
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