Meaning & use
itemized billing
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Meaning
noununcountablebusiness
A way of charging customers in which each product, service or call is listed separately with its own price.
Grammar: Has no plural: itemized billing is available, not an itemized billing.
Patterns
- itemized billing for something
- itemized billing of something
The phone company offers itemized billing so you can see every call.
Hospitals use itemized billing to show each treatment charge.
Itemized billing helped her notice a charge she did not recognize.
Common combinations
- request itemized billing
- You can request itemized billing from the clinic.
- detailed itemized billing
- The lawyer provides detailed itemized billing each month.
- itemized billing statement
- The itemized billing statement arrived by email.
- switch to itemized billing
- We switched to itemized billing for clarity.
- itemized billing for services
- They give itemized billing for services rendered.
Synonyms and how they differ
- detailed billing
- Detailed billing is a looser phrase and may give more information without listing every charge individually.
- line-item billing
- Line-item billing is a close term used in accounting and software for the same listing method.
- breakdown
- A breakdown is the list itself, whereas itemized billing is the whole way of charging.
Opposites
Word family
- itemize verb
- to list things one by one
- item noun
- a single thing in a list
- itemization noun
- the act of listing in detail
- billing noun
- the sending of bills
Commonly confused: itemized billing or itemized deduction?
itemized billing vs itemized deduction
An itemized deduction is a tax term for listed expenses subtracted from taxable income, unrelated to how a customer is billed.
Practice
With itemized billing, a customer receives ____.
Choose one answer.
Itemized means listed item by item, so each charge appears separately. A single unexplained total would be the opposite.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “itemized billing”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.