billing

name

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

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

noun

1. Amounts billed.
2. Accounts receivable.
3. The tracking of bills and amounts owed; the department within an institution or business that deals with the tracking of bills and amounts owed.
4. 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.”

   “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”

verb

1. present participle and gerund of bill