transcription, транскрипция: [ kɪlɪŋ ]
( killings)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A killing is an act of deliberately killing a person.
This is a brutal killing.
= murder
N-COUNT
2.
If you make a killing , you make a large profit very quickly and easily. ( INFORMAL )
They have made a killing on the deal.
PHRASE : V and N inflect