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billing




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billing
     1. n. Amounts billed.
     2. n. Accounts receivable.
     3. n. 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. n. The act or situation of including someone or something to those that make up a complete list.
bill
     1. n. Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, h
     2. n. A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
     3. n. Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
     4. n. A pickaxe, or mattock.
     5. n. (nautical) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
     6. v. To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.
     7. n. The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.
     8. n. A beak-like projection, especially a promontory.
     9. n. Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
     10. v. (obsolete) To peck.
     11. v. To stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness.
     12. n. A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)
     13. n. A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)
     14. n. A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
     15. n. (obsolete, legal) A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.
     16. n. (US) A piece of paper money; a banknote.
     17. n. A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.
     18. n. A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods
     19. n. A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document. A bill of exchange. In the United States, it is u
     20. n. A set of items presented together.
     21. v. To advertise by a bill or public notice.
     22. v. To charge; to send a bill to.
     23. n. The bell, or boom, of the bittern.

Example Sentences

Who is this woman that you were billing everything to? 



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