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bill·ing

(bĭl′ĭng)

1. 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: top billing.

2. Advertising; promotion: The product needed better billing to outsell its competition.

3. often billings The total amount of business done in a specific period, as by an advertising agency or a law firm.

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billing

(ˈbɪlɪŋ)

1. theatre the relative importance of a performer or act as reflected in the prominence given in programmes, advertisements, etc

2. chiefly US and Canadian public notice or advertising (esp in the phrase advance billing)

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bill•ing

(ˈbɪl ɪŋ)
n.

1. the listing of the name of a performer, act, or the like, on a marquee, poster, handbill, etc., esp. in regard to prominence: got top billing.

2. advertising; publicity: Advance billing made the show a sellout.

3. the preparing or sending out of bills or invoices.

4. the amount of business done by a firm within a specified period of time.

5. the cost of goods or services billed to a customer.

[1870–75]

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Noun

billing - request for payment of a debt; "they submitted their charges at the end of each month"

charge

asking, request - the verbal act of requesting

presentment - a document that must be accepted and paid by another person

Translations

billing

¹ [ˈbɪlɪŋ] N (Theat) to get top billing → ser la atracción principal, encabezar el reparto

billing

² [ˈbɪlɪŋ] N billing and cooing (fig) → besuqueo m, caricias fpl

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

billing

[ˈbɪlɪŋ] n [performer] → affiche f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

billing

(Theat) to get top/second billing → an erster/zweiter Stelle auf dem Programm stehen

(Telec etc) → Abrechnung f; billing unit → Abrechnungstakt m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

billing

[ˈbɪlɪŋ] n (Theatre) to get top billing → figurare in testa al cartellone

References in classic literature ?

There were forty in the party, including the master and crew of the Toreador; and Billings the indomitable was in command.

All during the trip Billings had steadfastly evaded questions as to how we were to enter Caspak after we had found Caprona.

"You see now," remarked Billings as we craned our necks to scan the summit thousands of feet above us, "how futile it would have been to waste our time in working out details of a plan to surmount those." And he jerked his thumb toward the cliffs.

Billings was satisfied, as were the rest of us, that this was the beach mentioned by Bowen, and we further found that there was ample room to assemble the sea-plane.

Billings, having arrived at a decision, lost no time in acting, with the result that before mid-afternoon we had landed all the large boxes marked "H" upon the beach, and were busily engaged in opening them.

We rolled the plane down to the water's edge, and Billings mounted the pilot's seat.

We have had no sign nor signal from Tom Billings since.

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MENTION "COMPLIANCE" TO A HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATOR AND you'd better hunker down for an involved discussion of billing, liability, and related issues.

OIG vey!

Our fully integrated clinical and financial software is designed to accommodate all case-mix billing methodologies, including PPS.

Information management

When appropriate, the examination should recommend the future use of comprehensive engagement letters, detailing the terms and conditions of the engagement--including the services that are expected to be performed, the basis for charging for those services, the attorneys to be assigned, billing rates and the nature of the working relationship between attorney and company.

How to examine legal bills

The problem of fraudulent and abusive billing practices has caught the attention of Congress.

Fraud and abuse: the payer's perspective

The DEP claims that on July 2006 it will convert all water billing to meter billing.