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Billable vs Chargeable - What's the difference?

billable | chargeable |

As adjectives the difference between billable and chargeable

is that billable is capable of being billed for while chargeable is that may be charged to an account.

As a noun billable

is something that is billed for.

billable

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Capable of being billed for.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that is billed for.
  • * 2008 , Tad Crawford, AIGA Professional Practices in Graphic Design
    • ...time spent building and encoding a Web site and similar billables should be calculated as services and so noted in all contracts and invoice terms.

    chargeable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That may be charged to an account.
  • (rare) Liable to be accused (either formally or informally).
  • * 1865 , Joel Prentiss Bishop, Commentaries on the Criminal Law (volume 2, page 380)
    • Thus, if one confines another, even a prisoner, who has not had the small-pox, with an infected person, whereby the one confined takes the distemper and dies, he is chargeable with murder.

    Quotations

    * 1859 John Thomas Arlidge - On the state of lunacy and the legal provision for the insane *: The law provides for the occasional visitation of pauper lunatics in asylums chargeable to parishes, by a certain number of the officers . . . * 1853 The Speeches of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox in the House of Common *: These cruelties are not, indeed, chargeable on Mr. Hastings personally; but when I state, that he levied an unjust war, the consequences that follow he is guilty of.