budget Hear it!

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

budget Related Forms
budg·et·ar′y (buj′ə ter′ē) adjective budg′·eter noun
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 Synonyms

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.

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.
  • devolve: There are other high priority demands for utilization of the underspending such as allowing a degree of carry forward for underspent devolved budgets.
  • suit: Websites designed to suit all budgets - visit my site today to see examples of sites I've done for business like yours.
  • approve: From the approved budget of £ 6,500 costs incurred were £ 5, 70.00.
  • agree: Each year the Council reviews its service and expenditure plans and agrees a budget which runs from 1st April to 31st March.

Adjective modifier

  • tight: Students on a tighter budget may forego these luxuries in order to pay lower rent.
  • annual: The annual budget for the Service is over £ 3 million.
  • pooled: We have a pooled budget for Adult Learning Disabilities.
  • limited: Limited budget For now, winter is the slow wedding season.
  • departmental: We are experienced in supplying the ideal equipment for your requirements within the confines of your annual departmental budgets.
  • balanced: Budget You will usually need to prepare a balanced budget showing all your other income sources and everything that you will need to spend.

Modifies a noun

  • deficit: The Government's annual budget deficit stands at 4 per cent of GDP.
  • airline: The budget airlines are expected to begin flights within the next 2-3 years.
  • allocation: When the next budget allocation was made, the treasurer would be able to see what funds had been gathered from sponsorship.
  • holder: The appropriate budget holder should always be kept informed.
  • constraint: Most people choose weekly sessions, but I am happy to work within your own budget constraints.

Noun used with modifier

  • shoestring: Let's discover how to decorate your kitchen on a shoestring budget.
  • revenue: The cost of funding the post would be £ 31,900 in a full year which had been included in the approved revenue budget.
  • defense: The only thing growing in the US is the defense budget.
  • draft: Social services spending has been slashed by £ 4.2 million in this year's draft budget.
budget Quotes

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

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

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)

Browse dictionary entries near budget

  1. ‹ budgerigar
  2. ‹ budge
  3. ‹ buddy list
  4. ‹ buddy-buddy
  5. ‹ buddy
  6. ‹ buddleia
  7. ‹ buddle
  8. ‹ budding
  9. ‹ Buddhism
  10. ‹ Buddha
  1. budget deficit ›
  2. budgeteer ›
  3. budgie ›
  4. Budweis ›
  5. budworm ›
  6. Buena Park ›
  7. Buena Vista ›
  8. buenas noches ›
  9. Buenaventura ›
  10. Buenos Aires ›