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billable

[bil-uh-buhl] Origin

bill·a·ble

[bil-uh-buhl]
adjective
1.
that may or should be billed: Attorneys put in hundreds of billable hours on the case.
noun
2.
an active customer account.

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Billable is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Origin:
1570–80; bill1 + -able

non·bill·a·ble, adjective
un·bill·a·ble, adjective
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billable (ˈbɪləbəl)
 
adj
referring to time worked, esp by a lawyer, on behalf of a particular client and for which that client will be expected to pay: a timesheet of my billable hours

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billable
1570s, from bill (1) + -able.
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