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budget definition

budget (buj′it)

noun

  1. Obsolete a bag, pouch, or purse, or its contents
  2. a collection of items; stock
  3. a plan or schedule adjusting expenses during a certain period to the estimated or fixed income for that period
  4. the cost or estimated cost of living, operating, etc.
  5. the amount of money needed or allotted for a specific use

Etymology: ME bougette < OFr, dim. of bouge: see budge

transitive verb

  1. to put on or in a budget; provide for in a budget
  2. to plan (expenditures or activities) according to a budget
  3. to plan in detail; schedule budget your time

intransitive verb

to make a budget

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budget Synonyms

budget

n.

estimates, estimated expenses, allocations, allowance, budgetary figures, accounts, financial statement, financial plan, cost of operation, cost of living, funds, resources, means, spending plan, planned disbursement; see also statement 3.


budget

v.

  1. To estimate expenditures and income

    allocate expenditures, balance income and outgo, allow for, figure in, ration, figure on, cost out; see also estimate 1.

  2. To estimate time or rations or distance, etc.

    compute, predict, plan, schedule; see estimate 1, 2.


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budget Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • allocate: In the public sector, allocated budgets never stretch far enough; in the private sector, these budgets may not exist at all.

Adjective modifier

  • tight: Students on a tighter budget may forego these luxuries in order to pay lower rent.

Modifies a noun

  • deficit: The Government's annual budget deficit stands at 4 per cent of GDP.

Noun used with modifier

  • shoestring: Let's discover how to decorate your kitchen on a shoestring budget.
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budget quotes

It is beginning to dawn on people that the influence of a nation is not measured by the size of its military budget, but by its industrial strength.

-Benn,Tony (Anthony Neil Wedgwood)

We are placing the burdens on the broadest shoulders. I made up my mind that, in forming the Budget, no cupboard should be barer, no lot should be harder to bear.

-Lloyd George (of Dwyfor), David, 1st Earl

Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well onpaper, suchasnational budgets or industrial balance sheets.

-Weil, Simone

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