budgetize

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verb

To adapt to, or incorporate into, a budget.

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Meanings

verbbudgetize (third-person singular simple present budgetizes, present participle budgetizing, simple past and past participle budgetized)

present singular third person budgetizes · participle present budgetizing · participle past budgetized · past budgetized

  1. transitiveuncommonTo adapt to, or incorporate into, a budget.

    It would be best to bring QFAs fully onto the budget (that is, to “budgetize” the QFAs).

    2020, Republic of Kazakhstan: Selected Issues, International Monetary Fund. Middle East and Central Asia Dept., page 52
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    A unilateral approach is even less promising given the complexity of the financial and legal questions raised by any attempt to budgetize the fund.

    1995, Official Journal of the European Communities: Debates of the European Parliament · Issues 465–467, page 11
  2. transitiveuncommonTo manage (something) according to a budget, so as to save money.

    Travel costs money, but I've always found ways to budgetize my trips. For starters, I never take tours.

    2009, Annie Korzen, Bargain Junkie: Living the Good Life on the Cheap, page 99

Origin

From budget + -ize.

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APA

budgetize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/budgetize

MLA

“budgetize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/budgetize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “budgetize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/budgetize.

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