budget
IPA: bˈʌdʒɪt
noun
- The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or timeframe.
- (by implication) A relatively small amount of available money.
- An itemized summary of intended expenditure; usually coupled with expected revenue.
- (obsolete) A wallet, purse or bag.
- (obsolete) A compact collection of things.
- (obsolete, military) A socket in which the end of a cavalry carbine rests.
verb
- (intransitive) To construct or draw up a budget.
- (transitive) To provide funds, allow for in a budget.
- (transitive) To plan for the use of in a budget.
adjective
- Appropriate to a restricted budget.
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Examples of "budget" in Sentences
- But at least they are now using the phrase "budget cuts" in polite company.
- The Republicans balancing a budget is about as likely as Jamaica dominating the future of world curling.
- \ "Instead, it is the process by which a particular type of budget is developed -- a Performance Budget (or \" program performance budget\ ").
- 5: In April 2009 the Daily Telegraph set up a "Twitterfall" for its coverage of the budget, in which it tried to include any tweets with the tag "#budget".
- When you hear the term budget travel, we know what you think: cheap hotels, C-list attractions and meal portions that wouldn't satisfy your average toddler.
- Good news ... if you are one of the taxpayers of the City of Aurora who wants to see government spend less, this budget is the first major step in that direction.
- Each new budget message explained that, because of unforeseen circumstances, the promise of the previous year had not been met, but next year things would be better; next year there would be a balanced budget .
- • Poll shows Lib Dem supporters ready to leave the party after the massive budget cuts announced by the coalition in the emergency budget• G20 communiqué expected to avoid criticism of austerity programmes in Europe
- Akaka���s bill gives the czar a budget for p.r. but no oversight over anyone else���s budget��� [and the] bill doesn���t specify to whom the czar would report ��� which leaves no one responsible when goals aren���t met.
- An 18th century pamphlet The Budget Opened likened Sir Robert Walpole to a mountebank opening his ` wallet of quack medicines and conjuring tricks '-- a less polite explanation of the term budget in its financial sense than the discreeter view that it refers to the ` Chancellor's leather bag or dispatch box,' hence to its contents.
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