Budget Definition

bŭjĭt

budgeted, budgeting, budgets

noun

An itemized summary of estimated or intended expenditures for a given period along with proposals for financing them.

Submitted the annual budget to Congress.

American Heritage

A plan or schedule adjusting expenses during a certain period to the estimated or fixed income for that period.

Webster's New World

A collection of items; stock.

Webster's New World

A bag, pouch, or purse, or its contents.

Webster's New World

The cost or estimated cost of living, operating, etc.

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verb

To plan (expenditures or activities) according to a budget.

Webster's New World

To put on or in a budget; provide for in a budget.

Webster's New World

To make a budget.

Webster's New World

To plan in detail; schedule.

Budget your time.

Webster's New World

To plan for the use of in a budget.

The prestigious building project is budgeted in great detail, from warf facilities to the protocollary opening.

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adjective

Of or relating to a budget.

Wiktionary

Appropriate for a restricted budget; inexpensive.

A budget car; budget meals.

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Other Word Forms of Budget

Singular:

budget

Plural:

Recorded since 1432 as Middle English bogett, bouget, bowgette (“leather pouch”), from Old French bougette, the diminutive of bouge (“leather bag, wallet”) (also the root of bulge), itself from Latin bulga (“leather bag, bellow”), of Gaulish origin (Celtic, compare Old Irish bolg (“bag”), Breton bolc’h (“flax pod”)), a common root with the Germanic family (compare Dutch balg (“child”)), from the Proto-Indo-European *bhelgh-.

From Wiktionary
Middle English bouget wallet from Old French bougette diminutive of bouge leather bag from Latin bulga of Celtic origin bhelgh- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition