billable
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4.0
- adjective
- /ˈbɪləbəl/
- Specialized
:
facturable
- Yet few firms are willing to take the necessary step of relieving one person of the billable time constraints, he says.
- billable hours
- billable time
So the other thing is people still tend to think in billable hours.
- So the other thing is people still tend to think in billable hours.
- So yeah, yeah, having a billable to insurance code is, is fundamental.
Examples
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Next to them were slots to fill in billable hours for every day of the week.
Fiction book (1990) -
Six hundred and eighty billable at full attorney rate.
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So that means I end up with 20 to 30 billable hours per week.
Blog text (27) -
The billable hour is the only thing of value in the law firm.
Academic text (2000) -
But the clients are a little bit nervous about it because at least the billable hour gives them some kind of metric.
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With the high salaries have come increased demands for billable time.
Academic text (2000) -
The ceiling for billable hours has risen steadily for decades.
Academic text (2005) -
The Visible Invisibility study found some differences in billable hours for women of color.
Academic text (2006) -
Cutler: I think the pressure to meet a quota of billable hours is obviously part of the problem.
Academic text (1994) -
Many lawyers track their time carefully to maximize their billable hours for clients.
Synonyms
Able to have a cost added to it or to receive electricity
Antonyms
How Billable
- Specialized
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- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Billable comes from the common word bill, which means a paper that asks for money ('invoice'), plus the ending -able, meaning 'can be'. So, billable describes work or hours that 'can be charged' to a client and put on an invoice.