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billing

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bill·ing  (blng)
n.
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. The total amount of business done in a specific period, as by an advertising agency or a law firm. Often used in the plural.

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 and Canadian public notice or advertising (esp in the phrase advance billing)
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.billingbilling - request for payment of a debt; "they submitted their charges at the end of each month"
asking, request - the verbal act of requesting
presentment - a document that must be accepted and paid by another person
Translations
billing1 [ˈbɪlɪŋ] N (Theat) to get top billingser la atracción principal, encabezar el reparto
billing2 [ˈbɪlɪŋ] N billing and cooing (fig) → besuqueo m, caricias fpl
billing [ˈbɪlɪŋ] n [performer] → affiche f
billing
n
(Theat) to get top/second billingan erster/zweiter Stelle auf dem Programm stehen
(Telec etc) → Abrechnung f; billing unitAbrechnungstakt m
billing [ˈbɪlɪŋ] n (Theatre) to get top billingfigurare in testa al cartellone
billing [ˈbɪlɪŋ] n (Theatre) to get top billingfigurare in testa al cartellone


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They are "The turtles of the wood," "The billing pair.
What will he say when, instead of a pair of plump turtle doves, billing and cooing in a bower of roses, he finds a single lean cormorant, standing mateless and shelterless on poverty's bleak cliff?
Hattersley will be too busy billing and cooing, with his bride to have much time to spare for guns and dogs at present,' he replied.
 
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