- budget
- [[t]bʌ̱ʤɪt[/t]]
♦♦budgets, budgeting, budgeted1) N-COUNT: with supp Your budget is the amount of money that you have available to spend. The budget for something is the amount of money that a person, organization, or country has available to spend on it.
She will design a fantastic new kitchen for you - and all within your budget...
Someone had furnished the place on a tight budget...
This year's budget for AIDS prevention probably won't be much higher.
2) N-COUNT The budget of an organization or country is its financial situation, considered as the difference between the money it receives and the money it spends.The hospital obviously needs to balance the budget each year.
...his readiness to raise taxes as part of an effort to cut the budget deficit.
3) N-PROPER In Britain, the Budget is the financial plan in which the government states how much money it intends to raise through taxes and how it intends to spend it. The Budget is also the speech in which this plan is announced.The Chancellor could use the Budget to bring in taxation reforms.
...other indirect tax changes announced in the Budget.
4) VERB If you budget certain amounts of money for particular things, you decide that you can afford to spend those amounts on those things.[V amount for n] The company has budgeted $10 million for advertising...
[be V-ed at amount] The movie is only budgeted at $10 million...
I'm learning how to budget. [Also V amount to-inf]
Derived words:budgeting N-UNCOUNTWe have continued to exercise caution in our budgeting for the current year.
5) ADJ: ADJ n Budget is used in advertising to suggest that something is being sold cheaply.Cheap flights are available from budget travel agents from ₤240.
Phrasal Verbs:Syn:
English dictionary. 2008.
