budget

plural budgets

1. The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or timeframe.

   limited budget

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   unlimited budget

   working to a tight budget

   within the budget

   over the budget

   At the other extreme, with limitless budgets all they have to do is dream up amazing lighting rigs to be constructed and operated by the huge team of gaffers and sparks, with their generators, discharge lights, flags, gobos and brutes.

   1999, Des Lyver, Graham Swainson, Basics of Video Lighting, page 103

2. by implicationA relatively small amount of available money.

   We're on a budget, so we can't afford to eat at that restaurant.

3. An itemized summary of intended expenditure; usually coupled with expected revenue.
4. obsoleteA wallet, purse or bag.

   With that out of his bouget forth he drew / Great store of treasure, therewith him to tempt […]

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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   The Bread of my Companions vvas halfe baked Dough, of round forme, vvhich they bake vvith putting a hot ſtone into the Dough, and rolling it, caſt it into the fire, ſo that the out-ſide is ſcorched, the in-ſide unbaked. This they carried in their Budgets, but my ſtomacke could not beare it.

   1625, [Samuel] Purchas, “Late Changes of State and Religion in Ethiopia, with Other Remarkable Obseruations”, in Purchas His Pilgrimes. […], 2nd part, London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, 7th book, § II (Description of the Countries, and the Severall Regions, Religions, and Abassine Opinions), page 1186

   The king holds up a hand to the lute player: ‘Thank you, leave us.’ The boy stuffs his music back into his budget and goes out backwards.

   2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 364

5. obsoleteA compact collection of things.

   I set off, therefore, in high spirits, for I felt that I had done good work and was bringing back a fine budget of news for my companions.

   1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

6. obsoletegovernmentA socket in which the end of a cavalry carbine rests.

1. not comparableAppropriate to a restricted budget.

   We flew on a budget airline.

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   A classic budget game, there isn't really anything outstanding about Rescue at all.

   1991 December, “The YS Official Top 100 Part 3”, in Your Sinclair, number 72

   Synonyms: bargainous, economic, low-cost, bargainous, brand X, cheap, cheapie, cheapo

present singular third person budgets · participle present budgeting · participle past budgeted · past budgeted

1. intransitiveTo construct or draw up a budget.

   Budgeting is even harder in times of recession

2. transitiveTo provide funds, allow for in a budget.

   The PM’s pet projects are budgeted rather generously

3. transitiveTo plan for the use of in a budget.

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