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budget

[ buhj-it ]

noun

  1. an estimate, often itemized, of expected income and expense for a given period in the future.
  2. a plan of operations based on such an estimate.
  3. an itemized allotment of funds, time, etc., for a given period.
  4. the total sum of money set aside or needed for a purpose:

    the construction budget.

  5. a limited stock or supply of something:

    his budget of goodwill.

  6. Obsolete. a small bag; pouch.


adjective

  1. reasonably or cheaply priced:

    budget dresses.

verb (used with object)

, budg·et·ed, budg·et·ing.
  1. to plan allotment of (funds, time, etc.).
  2. to deal with (specific funds) in a budget.

verb (used without object)

, budg·et·ed, budg·et·ing.
  1. to subsist on or live within a budget.

budget

1

/ ˈbʌdʒɪt /

noun

  1. an itemized summary of expected income and expenditure of a country, company, etc, over a specified period, usually a financial year
  2. an estimate of income and a plan for domestic expenditure of an individual or a family, often over a short period, such as a month or a week
  3. a restriction on expenditure (esp in the phrase on a budget )
  4. modifier economical; inexpensive

    budget meals for a family

  5. the total amount of money allocated for a specific purpose during a specified period
  6. archaic.
    a stock, quantity, or supply
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


verb

  1. tr to enter or provide for in a budget
  2. to plan the expenditure of (money, time, etc)
  3. intr to make a budget
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Budget

2

/ ˈbʌdʒɪt /

noun

  1. the Budget
    an estimate of British government expenditures and revenues and the financial plans for the ensuing fiscal year presented annually to the House of Commons by the Chancellor of the Exchequer
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈbudgetary, adjective
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Other Words From

  • budg·et·ar·y [buhj, -i-ter-ee], adjective
  • budget·er noun
  • non·budget·ary adjective
  • pre·budget noun adjective
  • pre·budget·ary adjective
  • pro-budget·ing adjective
  • re·budget verb (used with object) rebudgeted rebudgeting
  • un·budget·ed adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of budget1

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English bowgett, from Middle French, bougette, from bouge “bag” (from Latin bulga; bulge ) + -ette -ette )
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Word History and Origins

Origin of budget1

C15 (meaning: leather pouch, wallet): from Old French bougette , diminutive of bouge , from Latin bulga , of Gaulish origin; compare Old English bælg bag
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Example Sentences

In a news release the same day, advisers highlighted a long-planned increase in the ad budget this week of about 50 percent over last week.

This has left some states scrambling to ramp up mail-in voting while simultaneously preparing to hold socially distanced in-person elections on tight budgets.

The cow is officially back now, though, with a new line of mostly budget, Walmart-exclusive Gateway laptops.

The Housing Commission also included $19 million in its annual budget to help acquire the hotels and another $10 million to support rental assistance at the properties.

State and city budgets are also under severe strain and many have cut large parts of their workforce as they wait for Congress to decide whether to approve more assistance.

Community policing is expensive and, in an era of budget cuts, increasingly rare.

And there are other stories DuVernay could have told and still met her (relatively) modest budget of $20 million.

The airplane was owned by an Indonesian budget carrier, Lion Air.

“Mostly people on a budget use it,” Franz Dobersberger, managing director of a Bangkok travel agency, told The Daily Beast.

It actually kept the government open all year and manage to pass something vaguely resembling a budget.

Regular taxation, monopolies, mortgages, and loans barely sufficed to provide for the budget.

"Working men have been hit very hard by the tyrannical Budget," announces a morning paper.

Several uneducated business men are said to have written to the Dean asking the Latin for what they think of the new Budget.

Having had time to consider the Budget proposals in detail Mr. Asquith was less complimentary and more critical.

In the passage outside the drawing-room was Hedges, evidently waiting for his master, and with a budget to unfold.

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