billed

adjective

ˈbild 

: having a bill especially of a specified kind

—usually used in combination

spoon-billed

Examples of billed in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The 29-year-old Morgan — from Sylva, N.C. — reaches the Country Airplay top 10 with his first entry as a billed recording artist. —Jim Asker, Billboard, 7 Mar. 2025

Here Are All The Companies Cutting DEI Programs Assuming AI lives up to even a portion of its billed potential, a high number of jobs formerly handled by humans will be taken over by machines. —John Tamny, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025

The song is, of course, a tribute to the late Luther Vandross, who never topped the chart as a billed artist, although his voice has been heard on multiple No. 1s dating back nearly a half-century. —Gary Trust, Billboard, 26 Feb. 2025

Notably, the company reached a new milestone in its billed business, reporting a total of $408.4 billion, reflecting an 8% year-over-year increase. —Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 24 Jan. 2025

The album boasts a diverse lineup of billed guest artists, including Tanner Adell, Beyoncé’s daughter Rumi Carter, Miley Cyrus, Willie Jones, Tiera Kennedy, Linda Martell, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Post Malone, Reyna Roberts, Shaboozey and Brittney Spencer. —Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 11 Sep. 2024

These eight firms represent over 90 percent of revenue, 96 percent of [average jail and prison population], and 96 percent of billed and unbilled minutes in the data set. —Jon Brodkin, WIRED, 19 July 2024

These eight firms represent over 90 percent of revenue, 96 percent of [average jail and prison population], and 96 percent of billed and unbilled minutes in the dataset. —Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 18 July 2024

Last year, supporters of bird name changes saw one victory when the American Ornithological Society renamed McCown's longspur -- after Confederate Gen. John Porter McCown -- as the thick-billed longspur. —Leah Asmelash, CNN, 9 June 2021

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

Phrases Containing billed

• duck-billed dinosaur
• duck-billed platypus
• ivory-billed woodpecker
• ring-billed gull
• spoon-billed

Rhymes for billed

• backfilled
• distilled
• fulfilled
• infilled
• instilled
• rebuild
• refilled
• unfilled
• unskilled
• untilled
• build
• chilled