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Definition: Billing |
BillingNoun1. Request for payment of a debt; "they submitted their charges at the end of each month". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "billing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Public Administration | Amount of business done by an advertising agency. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Joseph Billings was an English explorer. See Joseph Billings for more detail.
A city named Billings, Montana, USA exists. See Billings, Montana for more details.
The process of sending accounts to customers for goods or services is called billing.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Billing."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| BID | English | Billing identification number | Post & Telecom |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: BillingSynonym: charge (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: billings (computing). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Endearment | Noun: endearment, caress; blandishment, blandiment; _panchement, fondling, billing and cooing, dalliance, necking, petting, sporting, sparking, hanky-panky; caressing. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Well you might have mentioned me first on the billing. (The Thin Man; writing credit: Dashiell Hammett; Albert Hackett) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | There she is, said Mrs. Billing, as though I was a portrait. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | An old act with new billing. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Long Island Light and Power Co., Mineola, Long Island. Billing department. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Only in urban areas has the new billing system, based on per minute use, been introduced. (references) | |
Credit cards could become available for a range of applications, including Internet and electronic billing. (references) | ||
They also don’t require the phone service providers to send billing statements, thus lowering costs for everyone. (references) | ||
Economic History | Ukraine | This limits the introduction of a new electronic billing systems. (references) |
India | Billing for legal services has become extremely flexible in India. (references) | |
Syria | Ericsson will also supply computer equipment for three new telephone billing centers. (references) | |
Human Rights | Kazakhstan | A central, state-run billing center for telecommunications services, which opened during 2000, was not successful in rerouting services through its network during the year. (references) |
Political Economy | Guinea | Current fiscal reform efforts, in conjunction with the World Bank and the IMF, aim to increase the tax base by improving the billing and collection processes. (references) |
Guinea | In spite of investment incentives, large businesses and foreign interests often contribute more than their share of taxes, utility costs, and other fees due to inequitable billing and collection, fraud, and non-payment for services. (references) | |
Travel | Guinea | Utility costs are very high due to poor infrastructure and inadequate billing and collection. (references) |
Barbados | A credit card billing is accepted for Discover, but not Visa, MasterCard and American Express. (references) | |
New Zealand | The country supports many long distance billing services (Telecom, MCI, AT&T, Sprint, and more). (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Billing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 35.77% of the time. "Billing" is used about 137 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 35.77% | 49 | 48,677 |
| Noun (proper) | 28.47% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Noun (singular) | 27.01% | 37 | 56,631 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 8.76% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Total | 100.00% | 137 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "billing" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Billing | Last name | 300 | 24,012 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "billing": billing address ♦ billing and cooing ♦ billing identification number ♦ billing machine ♦ carrier access billing system ♦ conjunctive billing ♦ detailed billing ♦ integrated access billing system ♦ LEC billing ♦ top billing. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "billing": pemberton-billing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
billing | 4,082 | medical billing job | 137 |
billing montana | 2,096 | aol billing center | 133 |
medical billing | 1,887 | internet billing | 130 |
billing gazette | 1,014 | billing services | 122 |
aol billing | 746 | medicare billing | 120 |
medical billing software | 591 | work from home medical billing | 118 |
msn billing | 414 | medical billing training | 97 |
online billing | 367 | electronic medical billing | 95 |
utility billing | 282 | aol billing keyword | 90 |
billing software | 250 | medical billing from home | 90 |
billing job | 213 | medical billing course | 88 |
billing service | 212 | billing labcorp.com | 87 |
electronic billing | 198 | montana state university billing | 87 |
medical billing services | 172 | time billing software | 84 |
medical billing and coding | 157 | msu billing | 79 |
work at home medical billing | 156 | billing hotel | 77 |
medical billing company | 151 | medical billing service | 74 |
medical billing at home | 148 | billing system | 74 |
time billing | 139 | verizon billing | 71 |
physician billing | 138 | medical billing school | 71 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "billing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | العنوان الذي ترسل به الفواتير (billing address). (various references) | |
Chinese | 布告 (Billings). (various references) | |
Danish | BID-nummer (billing identification number), medloebstaelling (detailed billing), lokal opkrævning (LEC billing), hot billing (hot billing, immediate billing, marked subscriber), gruppeafregning (conjunctive billing), aftale med efterfølgende fakturering (contract with retrospective billing), øjeblikkelig afregning (hot billing, immediate billing, marked subscriber). (various references) | |
Dutch | rekeningidentificatienummer (billing identification number), kortstondige abonnee (hot billing, immediate billing, marked subscriber), gespecificeerde kostendoorberekening (detailed billing), gelijktijdige verrekening (conjunctive billing), facturatie door lokale carrier (LEC billing), facturatie door lokaal verbindingsbedrijf (LEC billing), contractueel geregelde betaling met facturering achteraf (contract with retrospective billing). (various references) | |
Finnish | laskutus. (various references) | |
French | billing, taxation, facturation. (various references) | |
German | Reklame (ad, advert, advertisement, advertising, commercial, junk mail, publicity). (various references) | |
Greek | BID (billing identification number), συνδεόμενοι λογαριασμοί (conjunctive billing), συμψηφιζόμενες χρεώσεις (conjunctive billing), άμεση τιμολόγηση (hot billing, immediate billing, marked subscriber), αριθμός αναγνώρισης ταυτότητας τιμολόγησης (billing identification number), αναδρομική έκδοση λογαριασμών (contract with retrospective billing), τιμολόγηση LEC (LEC billing). (various references) | |
Hungarian | számlázás (invoicing). (various references) | |
Italian | fatturazione (charging). (various references) | |
Korean | 청구서 발송 (Billings). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | illingbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | taxação (assessment, taxation, taxing), faturamento. (various references) | |
Russian | выставлять счет/....выписывание счета. (various references) | |
Spanish | facturación (invoicing, registration, turnover). (various references) | |
Swedish | fakturering (invoicing). (various references) | |
Thai | การโฆษ"า (fanfare). (various references) | |
Turkish | ismin afişteki sırası, hesap çıkarma. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "billing": billings, billingsgate, billingsgates. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "billing": cockbilling, misbilling, overbilling, prebilling, rebilling. (additional references) | |
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"Billing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bailliage, ballin, Beling, bellig, Bilina, billi, Billund, bilong, bioling, Biolink, birlinn, Blisland, Bolang, Bolling, bollingen, bollini, brillig, Byllynge, gillying. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "billing" (pronounced bi"ling) |
| 4 | -i" l i ng | chilling, distilling, drilling, filling, fulfilling, grilling, hilling, instilling, killing, milling, Pilling, quilling, rilling, Schilling, shilling, skilling, spilling, swilling, thrilling, Tilling, trilling, unwilling, willing, yearling. |
| 3 | -l i ng | annealing, appalling, appealing, ailing, ambling, angling, assailing, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, barreling, battling, beguiling, belittling, Belling, bicycling, blackmailing, boggling, boiling, Bolling, bottling, bowling, brawling, bristling, broiling, bubbling, buckling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, burgling, burling, bustling, cackling, cajoling, calling, canceling, cancelling, Carling, ceiling, channeling, chortling, chronicling, chuckling, circling, coddling, commingling, compelling, compiling, concealing, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, counseling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, cradling, crawling, crippling, crumbling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, cycling, dabbling, dangling, darling, dawdling, dazzling, dealing, decoupling, derailing, detailing, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, dispelling, dissembling, doling, doubling, dribbling, drizzling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, dwindling, earthling, emailing, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, enrolling, entailing, entangling, entitling, equaling, excelling, expelling, extolling, failing, falling, feeling, felling, fiddling, filing, fizzling, flailing, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fondling, fooling, forestalling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fumbling, funneling, galling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, grappling, Grayling, groundling, groveling, growling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, hailing, handling, hassling, hauling, healing, heckling, helling, hobbling, holing, howling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hurling, hurtling, hustling, idling, imperiling, inhaling, initialing, inkling, installing, intermingling, jailing, jiggling, jostling, juggling, Keeling, kindling, kneeling, labeling, leveling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, mangling, Marling, marshaling, meddling, Melling, middling, mingling, mishandling, mislabeling, misspelling, modeling, mothballing, mottling, muddling, mulling, mumbling, muscling, nailing, needling, nestling, nibbling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, paddling, paneling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, parceling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, pedaling, peddling, peeling, pickling, piddling, piling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quelling, quibbling, Quisling, railing, rambling, rankling, rappelling, rattling, raveling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, recycling, redoubling, reeling, refueling, regaling, rekindling, remodeling, repealing, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, resembling, reshuffling, retailing, retelling, retooling, revealing, reveling, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rippling, rivaling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruffling, ruling, rumbling, rustling, saddling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, schooling, scowling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, selling, settling, shelling, shoveling, shriveling, shuffling, shuttling, sibling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, smelling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spelling, spiraling, spiralling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squabbling, squealing, stalling, stapling, starling, startling, stealing, stenciling, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strangling, strickling, stripling, strolling, struggling, stumbling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swelling, swindling, swirling, swiveling, tabling, tackling, tailing, tangling, telling, throttling, tingling, tinkling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, trailing, trampling, traveling, travelling, trembling, trickling, trifling, tripling, trolling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twiddling, twinkling, twirling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unfurling, unraveling, unsettling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, veiling, waffling, waggling, wailing, walling, warbling, weakling, welling, whaling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiggling, wiling, wobbling, wrangling, wrestling, wrinkling, yelling, yodeling. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-g-i-i-l-l-n" | |
-2 letters: blini. | |
-3 letters: bill, blin, gill, glib, ling, nill. | |
-4 letters: big, bin, gib, gin, ill, lib, lin, nib, nil. | |
-5 letters: bi, in, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-g-i-i-l-l-n" | |
+1 letter: billings, libeling. | |
+2 letters: bilingual, billeting, billowing, bollixing, brailling, libelling, rebilling. | |
+3 letters: belittling, bilinguals, blindingly, gimballing, ineligible, misbilling, negligible, negligibly, obligingly, prebilling. | |
+4 letters: backfilling, bedevilling, beguilingly, bilingually, bullbaiting, bulletining, cockbilling, fireballing, gibberellin, globalising, globalizing, highballing, ineligibles, labializing, mislabeling, overbilling. | |
+5 letters: aboriginally, antiglobulin, bedrivelling, bilingualism, billboarding, billingsgate, blacklisting, blackmailing, blindfolding, blisteringly, bullbaitings, bullfighting, bullwhipping, disbowelling, embellishing, fibrillating, gibberellins, intelligible, intelligibly, liberalising, liberalizing, mislabelling, solubilising, solubilizing, spellbinding, syllabifying, trailblazing, unblinkingly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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