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billing

[bil-ing] Origin

bill·ing

[bil-ing]
noun
1.
the relative position in which a performer or act is listed on handbills, posters, etc.: A star usually receives billing above the title of the play.
2.
advertising; publicity: The show was a sellout weeks ahead of the opening because of advance billing.
3.
the amount of business done by a firm, especially an advertising agency, within a specified period of time.
4.
an act or instance of preparing or sending out a bill or invoice.
5.
the total amount of the cost of goods or services billed to a customer, usually covering purchases made or services rendered within a specified period of time.

Origin:
1870–75; bill1 + -ing1

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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.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
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bill

1[bil]
noun
1.
a statement of money owed for goods or services supplied: He paid the hotel bill when he checked out.
2.
a piece of paper money worth a specified amount: a ten-dollar bill.
3.
Government. a form or draft of a proposed statute presented to a legislature, but not yet enacted or passed and made law.
5.
a written or printed public notice or advertisement.
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6.
any written paper containing a statement of particulars: a bill of expenditures.
7.
Law. a written statement, usually of complaint, presented to a court.
8.
Slang. one hundred dollars: The job pays five bills a week.
10.
entertainment scheduled for presentation; program: a good bill at the movies.
11.
Obsolete.
b.
a written and sealed document.
c.
a written, formal petition.
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verb (used with object)
12.
to charge for by bill; send a bill to: The store will bill me.
13.
to enter (charges) in a bill; make a bill or list of: to bill goods.
14.
to advertise by bill or public notice: A new actor was billed for this week.
15.
to schedule on a program: The management billed the play for two weeks.
16.
fill the bill, to fulfill the purpose or need well: As a sprightly situation comedy this show fills the bill.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English bille < Anglo-French < Anglo-Latin billa for Late Latin bulla bull2

bill·er, noun


1. reckoning, invoice, statement. 5. bulletin, handbill, poster, placard, announcement, circular, throwaway, flyer, broadside.

bill

2[bil]
noun
1.
the parts of a bird's jaws that are covered with a horny or leathery sheath; beak.
2.
the visor of a cap or other head covering.
3.
a beaklike promontory or headland.
verb (used without object)
4.
to join bills or beaks, as doves.
5.
bill and coo, to kiss or fondle and whisper endearments, as lovers: My sister and her boyfriend were billing and cooing on the front porch.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English bile, bille, Old English bile beak, trunk; akin to bill3
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billing (ˈbɪlɪŋ)
 
n
1.  theatre the relative importance of a performer or act as reflected in the prominence given in programmes, advertisements, etc
2.  chiefly (US), (Canadian) public notice or advertising (esp in the phrase advance billing)

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bill
"bird's beak," O.E., related to bill, a poetic word for "a kind of sword" (especially one with a hooked blade), from a common Germanic word for cutting or chopping weapons (cf. O.H.G. bihal, O.N. bilda "hatchet," O.S. bil "sword"), from PIE base *bheie- "to cut, to strike." Used also in M.E. of beak-like
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projections of land.

billing
1875, "announcement on a bill or poster," from bill (1); hence top billing (1928). Meaning "act of sending out a bill" is recorded from 1908.
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