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单词 budget
释义
budget
(bʌdʒɪt )
Word forms: budgets , budgeting , budgeted
1. countable noun B2
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.
There can be more room in the budget for better foods if meat is kept to a minimum.
2. countable noun B2
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. [business]
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. proper noun
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.
The company has budgeted $10 million for advertising. [V amount + for]
The movie is only budgeted at $10 million. [be V-ed + at]
I'm learning how to budget. [VERB]
Synonyms: plan, estimate, allocate, cost  
budgeting uncountable noun
We have continued to exercise caution in our budgeting for the current year.
5. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] B2
Budget is used in advertising to suggest that something is being sold cheaply.
Cheap flights are available from budget travel agents from £240.
Synonyms: inexpensive, economy, bargain, sale  
Phrasal verbs:
budget for
phrasal verb
If you budget for something, you take account of it when you are deciding how much you can afford to spend on different things.
The authorities had budgeted for some non-payment. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
The zoo was budgeting for 850,000 visitors this year. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
-budget
(-bʌdʒɪt )
combining form
-budget combines with adjectives such as 'low' and ' big' to form adjectives which indicate how much money is spent on something, especially the making of a film.
They were small, low-budget films, shot on location.
...a big-budget adventure movie starring Mel Gibson.
Quotations:
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result miseryCharles DickensDavid Copperfield
Collocations:
agree a budget
And no, the pair didn't agree a budget beforehand.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Failure to agree a budget almost led to a shutdown of non-essential government services.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Sticking to an agreed budget is vital.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
austerity budget
There is no need for another austerity budget.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
This was no way to prepare us for an austerity budget.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The austerity budget may not be sufficient to meet the deficit target.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
blow the budget
Want big hair without blowing the budget?
The Sun (2014)
Or you can really blow the budget and install speakers in the wall behind the plaster.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Buy a wreck, do it up without blowing the budget, then sell it on for a good profit.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
budget carefully
Find the right parcel of city land, then budget carefully, and it can be cost-effective.
Times, Sunday Times
Budget carefully to ensure you don't blow all your first student loan instalment in the first few weeks.
The Sun
Buyers need to plan their budget carefully, though.
Times, Sunday Times
They need to budget carefully and avoid taking on further debt for emergencies.
The Sun
The party also budgeted carefully in case there was a second election this year.
Times, Sunday Times
budget constraint
There isn't a hint of a budget constraint.
Times, Sunday Times
Increasing the income will shift the budget constraint right since more of both can be bought, and decreasing income will shift it left.
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Given the fundamental nature of the budget constraint, these differences between needs mirror systematic changes in the expenditure shares of consumption as income rises.
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This guarantees the constancy of the budget constraint and vastly simplifies the problem of how the consumer should adjust consumption over the life-time.
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In this respect, the flypaper effect occurs because citizens are unaware of the true budget constraint.
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budget crisis
During the city's budget crisis in the 1970s there was talk of disbanding the unit altogether.
Times, Sunday Times
These are not the 2,000-plus expected from the budget crisis.
Chicago Sun-Times
The gift of an inheritance tax break to the rich was also badly timed to coincide with a budget crisis.
Times, Sunday Times
In addition, we identified times when some members created a budget crisis by withholding pledges in order to influence vestry policy.
Christianity Today
Neither the upcoming budget crisis nor the tax hike that will result will weaken the ardour.
Globe and Mail
budget cutback
Instead, what worried analysts yesterday was the notion of 'late cylicality' - that the weakening macroeconomic conditions would feed into budget cutbacks for the key education businesses.
Times, Sunday Times
A decade ago, provincial governments cut medical-school enrolments, partly because of budget cutbacks, partly because they felt there were enough doctors in the pipeline.
Globe and Mail
The number of health bureaucrats earning more than the prime minister has more than doubled in a year, despite budget cutbacks and pay freezes for nurses.
Times, Sunday Times
This was done while government was imposing budget cutbacks.
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Due to budget cutbacks, conventional sampling was reinstated with a return to the previous low grade results.
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budget deal
Formal talks on the 2014-20 budget deal do not start until next year.
The Sun
The candidates were then asked if they would accept a budget deal that raised taxes by just $1 for every $10 of cuts.
Times, Sunday Times
And when candidates were asked during a recent debate whether they would accept a budget deal that cut $10 of public spending for every $1 in tax increases, all said no.
Times, Sunday Times
The budget deal has now knocked a hole through the governor's green credentials.
Times, Sunday Times
A budget deal was agreed to less than two hours before a shutdown would have begun.
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budget debate
As home secretary, it wasn't her place to speak in the budget debate, but she made her presence felt.
Times, Sunday Times
In budget debates, the rich have many political friends and lobbyists.
Christianity Today
He also called for more general discipline during budget debates, urging delegates not to block discussions by failing to appear for meetings.
Times, Sunday Times
He there obtained a reputation as extremely knowledgeable and contributed significantly to the annual budget debates.
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The naval staff hoped to gain a success to influence postwar budget debates...
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budget estimates
The program included timelines, planning for a ground station, budget estimates, and personnel requirements.
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The rules governing committees are slightly different when conducting budget estimates hearings.
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He also deals with the day-to-day running of business and prepares basic reports for budget estimates.
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He did retain the right to change the budget estimates section by section.
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The new campus cost $29.5 million, which was $500,000 under the original budget estimates.
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budget forecast
He was forced to present a budget forecast that 'simply lacked credibility'.
Times, Sunday Times
He expects a deficit of 41 billion, 5 billion above the budget forecast.
Times, Sunday Times
The 29 per cent fall was larger than the official budget forecast for a decline of 28 per cent for 2016-17 as a whole.
Times, Sunday Times
This cap should be set on the basis of what we've actually earned, not on the jam-tomorrow budget forecasts of over-optimistic chancellors.
Times, Sunday Times
However, analysts said that the contraction undercut the government's budget forecasts, making it more difficult to return to a budget surplus.
Times, Sunday Times
budget gap
Taxing land values would be a fair way to help to plug the budget gap while stabilising-and even boosting -the economy.
Times, Sunday Times
The supplemental budget was to cover the budget gap that had arisen due to slow economic growth.
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The administration closed the budget gap, and ended fiscal year 2004 with a budget surplus of $700 million.
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In 2011 and 2012, the park agreed to return to its original winter schedule for a trial period after the local community raised $75,000 to bridge the estimated budget gap.
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The administration has pledged to address the budget gaps.
Houston Chronicle
budget negotiations
Thrilling, rather like the budget negotiations, but when done correctly, not fatal.
Times, Sunday Times
In other words, he has renewed the battle over the issue that wrecked the last round of budget negotiations.
Times, Sunday Times
Despite concern over the budget negotiations, most analysts are hopeful that a compromise will be reached.
Times, Sunday Times
He was speaker of the legislature from 1987 to 1991 and generated some controversy in that position after heated state budget negotiations.
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I urge them to... quit adding or resurrecting endless ideological debating points, and to stop using budget negotiations to score points with political allies or against partisan opponents.
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budget package
The overall budget package involved €3 billion of tax cuts and spending increases, including supplementary measures made possible by tax receipts that were better than projected.
Times, Sunday Times
But some of the contents of the budget package, the parts not accompanied by oneliners, may have a long-term impact.
Times, Sunday Times
She voted for the 1993 budget package and against the welfare reform laws passed in 1996, but on many other matters she was more conservative.
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They do not decide the terms of new issues of government debt, budget packages or the scale of quantitative easing.
Times, Sunday Times
budget planning
Two months later, she attended again for more consideration as the budget planning process neared a key due date.
Christianity Today
Once taken through a budget planning exercise, most found that they required about 10,000 to 15,000 in the early years of retirement.
Times, Sunday Times
He served successively in diplomatic, arctic, congressional liaison and high-level budget planning, operational and training activities.
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Functions can include grant discovery, budget planning, peer collaboration, regulatory compliance, proposal submission, administrative reporting and project tracking.
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The headquarters included an intelligence bureau; administrative and training center; bureaus of logistics, personnel, and budget planning; and a security and foreign liaison division.
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budget priority
Another dodge was budget priority.
Christianity Today
The caucus instead plans to focus on budget priorities.
Houston Chronicle
The government's budget priorities changed, with emphasis placed on solving the nation's social problems.
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The committee toured the province to meet with stakeholders and delivered a report concerning budget priorities.
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The program was canceled in 2002 because of budget priorities.
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budget projection
Officials are waiting for the numbers before deciding whether the budget projection for 175 billion of public borrowing this year will need to be revised.
Times, Sunday Times
At the time of the bid, the budget projection was around 2 billion, but it was later estimated that the true cost would be around 9 billion.
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Her team created the bid's master plan, which detailed where events would be held, what infrastructure would be built, and provided an overall budget projection for the games.
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Worse still, this grim appraisal assumes that the administration's budget projections are reasonably accurate-most dispassionate observers say they are wildly over-optimistic.
Times, Sunday Times
Today's baseline budget projections are very much like those prepared more than two decades ago, although they now span 10 years instead of five.
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budget proposal
Last year, the defence sector slumped in the fourth quarter on rumours of a sharply lower fiscal 2007 budget proposal.
Times, Sunday Times
The budget proposal assumes a 3-per-cent tax rise for homeowners.
Globe and Mail
The preliminary budget proposal must also be printed and made available for public inspection at least 20 days prior to its adoption.
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The fiscal 2010 budget proposal brought the overseas contingency supplemental requests into the budget process, adding the $130 billion amount to the deficit.
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They are preceded in that process by the president's budget proposal, congressional budget resolutions, and the 302(b) allocation.
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budget reduction
A number of workers claimed they had been squeezed enough and any further budget reduction would affect frontline services.
Times, Sunday Times
Capital projects will bear the brunt, with a 15 per cent budget reduction, but teaching and research will also be affected.
Times, Sunday Times
That says that next year spending will account for 57 per cent of the budget reduction, and taxes 43 per cent.
Times, Sunday Times
While filled with good intentions and the objective to save more than 3,000 prison places and a 130 million budget reduction, the unintended consequences are clearly causing widespread concern.
Times, Sunday Times
To bring borrowing under control, some public services are facing substantial budget reductions.
Times, Sunday Times
budget reform
A huge austerity programme, combined with budget reform, swung into action between 1994 and 1997.
Times, Sunday Times
The press the report generated breathed new life into the defense budget reform movement, which eventually led to the 1985 military budget freeze.
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He claimed that he did not have enough support in the legislature to approve budget reforms until 1992.
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budget shortfall
News of the spending comes weeks after the corporation announced it needed to recoup a 140million budget shortfall over five years.
The Sun
It was already factored into the budget shortfall.
Chicago Sun-Times
The carrier deal became mired in tortuous negotiations over an estimated 2 billion budget shortfall.
Times, Sunday Times
However, we believe we can no longer justify the cross-subsidy from other academic areas to meet the centre's budget shortfall.
Times, Sunday Times
He said that the measures would make up a $137 million (84 million) budget shortfall.
Times, Sunday Times
budget squeeze
For patients, the pinch will come from the budget squeeze.
Times, Sunday Times
They accuse ministers of blaming doctors for problems caused by a budget squeeze.
Times, Sunday Times
Concerns remain about the effect of the budget squeeze on household incomes.
Times, Sunday Times
Budget squeezes and redundancies are a dangerous breeding ground for employee discontent.
Times, Sunday Times
The disclosures will reignite the debate over resources after warnings from senior figures over the impacts of further budget squeezes on forces.
Times, Sunday Times
combined budget
It's running a combined budget deficit of more than 2.3 billion with three quarters of hospitals and other providers in the red.
Times, Sunday Times
The music department accounts for a sixth of the cathedral's spending, more than the combined budget available for all energy costs and repairs and maintenance.
Times, Sunday Times
If you're looking to reach an audience responsible for a combined budget of 118 billion, you can trust us to do it for you.
Times, Sunday Times
With a combined budget of more than $750 million for research, public policy advocacy and direct services.
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He has received numerous federal and state grants for his research with combined budgets totaling more than $5 million.
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current budget
Over the year, the current budget was in deficit by 10.8 billion, compared to 19 billion the previous year.
Times, Sunday Times
Those decisions include the policy of balancing the so-called current budget, adopted before the election.
Times,Sunday Times
Be sure to consider whether the current budget should include items to help facilitate growth or ministry in the future (beyond just the coming year).
Christianity Today
Tax cuts seem unlikely, given the current budget deficit and spending commitments, while interest rate cuts are likely to be constrained by strong inflationary pressure.
The Sun
The current budget - excluding public sector investment - was in surplus in every year from 1948 to 1974, averaging 3.8% a year.
Times, Sunday Times
cut the budget
The move is part of a package to cut the legal aid budget by £350 million.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The education department's budget was also cut by £1 billion.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Maybe they should do another rehearsal for what happens when their budget is cut in two.
The Sun (2015)
defence budget
But it means we will have a balanced defence budget.
The Sun (2012)
The defence budget will come under pressure.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The defence budget is not some theoretical construct.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Unfortunately her father didn't have a crossword puzzle, and he had apparently finished the article about the defence budget.
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Investors will be looking for guidance on the impact of US defence budget moves and the potential for further integration across the group.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
double the budget
The temptation is great to double the budget.
MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices (1974)
First, I am doubling the housing budget.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
He will also announce a string of family friendly initiatives, including doubling the budget for relationship counselling.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
draw up a budget
When budgets are drawn up they should be submitted to the relevant select committee for approval.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Draw up a budget and stick to it.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Draw up a budget for outgoings in retirement.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
education budget
The education budget is being cut by a quarter.
The Sun (2010)
That's virtually the entire education budget.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
They said that the changes would put pressure on health and education budgets.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
entire budget
Slowly I realised that the entire budget had been spent on organising the meeting.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
It would cost my entire budget all over again.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The bill more than wiped out the entire budget I had to live on.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
estimated budget
A compensation scheme with an estimated budget of at least £200 million has been set up.
Times,Sunday Times
But tough contracts have so far kept it broadly within its estimated budget of 12.7 billion.
Times, Sunday Times
With an estimated budget of over $5 million, it garnered rentals in excess of $13 million.
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The film had an estimated budget of $88 million and grossed $108.5 million worldwide.
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Despite the positive critical response, the film earned just over $41 million at the box office on an estimated budget of $45 million.
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exceed a budget
Nearly half (46 percent) are matching their budget, while 22 percent say receipts exceed their budget.
Christianity Today
But the cost of doing so would exceed the budget that voters approved for that project.
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Moreover, each agent has a budget and the sum of the costs of tasks assigned to it can not exceed this budget.
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Under his austere and autocratic control, location filming was cut back, and no film was permitted to exceed a budget of 150,000.
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Some families might never want to exceed their budget.
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family budget
Family budgets are already badly squeezed and inevitably those on the lowest incomes will be hit hardest.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Factor in any costs and what you need to buy for your clean home regime into your family budget.
The Sun (2019)
He left school at 14 to begin work and so contribute to the family budget.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
federal budget
So the federal budget remains unapproved and the shutdown continues.
Times, Sunday Times
Ironically, the one unambiguous congressional agreement in the past 12 months - cutting $85bn from the federal budget - has come through inaction.
Times, Sunday Times
What will this do for the federal budget?
Times, Sunday Times
He declared his intention to pour over the federal budget 'page by page, line by line', to cut wasteful spending programmes.
Times, Sunday Times
By 1945, 93.5 per cent of the federal budget went to war-related expenditure.
Times,Sunday Times
health budget
Almost two thirds of the total health budget is now spent on treating patients with chronic conditions.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
It will be up to them to provide the service from within the new health budget.
The Sun (2008)
Prison governors are to be given more powers over education, work and health budgets in the hope of introducing new ideas into the prison system.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
household budget
Could a website really help me cut my household budget?
Times, Sunday Times
She should be able to keep simple accounts so as to manage the household budget.
Times, Sunday Times
As a percentage of a household budget, transport costs have not risen for years.
Times, Sunday Times
First, much of a household budget consists of bills that are occasional rather than regular, and often quite random.
Times, Sunday Times
Keep getting these things wrong and you will burn a big hole in your household budget.
The Sun
huge budget
It was a huge budget, the biggest giveaway in almost 30 years: one part coronavirus fighting fund, one part anti-austerity levelling up.
Times,Sunday Times
The appointment, the huge budget, the absence of progress or improvement, the departure, the payoff.
Times, Sunday Times
But what really irritated me was the manner in which he included his production staff in the defence of the show's huge budget.
The Sun
The plan to limit costs to 72,000 from next year was shelved after councils warned that they were facing huge budget shortfalls.
Times, Sunday Times
And films, especially those with a huge budget, are bound to favour a conventional and popular view.
Times, Sunday Times
increase the budget
I urged them to increase the budget, and now we're swimming in red ink.
Christianity Today
Congress has moved a little, increasing the budget to send detainees abroad.
Times, Sunday Times
Government departments are notoriously competitive when trying to increase their budgets or remits, but their press departments seem even more so.
Times, Sunday Times
limited budget
Some agents certainly deserve their reputation for rapaciousness and the curt put-down to the hopeful buyer on a limited budget.
Times, Sunday Times
Despite a limited budget and cheap sets, it proved to be a hit.
Times, Sunday Times
How can we improve it on a limited budget?
Times, Sunday Times
The programme's lo-fi, homespun look, a result of the limited budget and resources available, was part of its appeal.
Times, Sunday Times
I am in my mid-thirties, with a limited budget (150), and want to look funky but entirely appropriate.
Times, Sunday Times
maintenance budget
This left the doomed aircraft to soldier on, well beyond its best, on a shoestring maintenance budget.
Times, Sunday Times
Many councils have already cut their parks maintenance budget by 50 per cent since 2010.
Times, Sunday Times
A spokeswoman said it was already over its 1.2m road maintenance budget.
Times, Sunday Times
Savings on the maintenance budget automatically generate free cash flows in the future and, by consequence, value.
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The maintenance budget remained below $1000 until 1925 and records of books borrowed and returned were recorded by hand in a large ledger.
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marketing budget
Up to 5,000 firms are expected to compete for cash prizes and a generous marketing budget to help their expansion plans.
The Sun
His first move was to pour cash into adidas's worldwide marketing budget, enabling it to sponsor several famous athletes and ensure important brand exposure.
Times, Sunday Times
It overhauled its booking system to focus on local stays, and cut staff by a quarter and its marketing budget by $1 billion.
Times,Sunday Times
Last year, without a big marketing budget, they drove up and down the country on the week of release, signing records and doing in-store shows.
Times, Sunday Times
By scheduling our marketing events annually, we maintain consistency and use our marketing budget more carefully.
Christianity Today
massive budget
Why did it need a recession and a massive budget deficit for this to take place?
Times, Sunday Times
With their massive budget and their various advisers, the film-makers could so easily have tweaked these and got them right.
Times,Sunday Times
It would have been astonishing if near-zero interest rates and massive budget deficits had failed to stimulate demand.
Times, Sunday Times
There are no big delays, no collapsing walls and no massive budget deficits - at least, not by contemporary standards.
Times, Sunday Times
But they can still boast a huge squad and massive budget.
Times, Sunday Times
military budget
The military budget is minuscule compared with some other government spending.
The Sun (2010)
The party said that it would increase Britain's military budget by 40 per cent.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The detection business was also affected by military budget freezes in the US.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
modest budget
Made on a modest budget, it has been a blockbuster smash in the US.
The Sun (2017)
These days a modest budget for a PC doesn't necessarily saddle you with a poor machine.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
A better option for those with a more modest budget is to take the slow train.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
monthly budget
Draw up a comprehensive monthly budget, detailing all your ingoings and outgoings.
Times, Sunday Times
This includes looking at your current monthly budget and working out what you will spend more or less on.
Times, Sunday Times
Refer back to your monthly budget and see what you can afford to pay.
The Sun
If you move in together, these expenses should be detailed in a monthly budget and could be paid out of a joint account.
Times, Sunday Times
For people unused to managing a monthly budget, this makes the path to full responsibility more manageable.
Times, Sunday Times
overall budget
We had an overall budget of £130,000.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
They then charge a percentage of the overall budget.
The Sun (2010)
In a further blow for town halls, the overall local government budget has been cut by ten per cent.
The Sun (2013)
pass a budget
The subtext was that any failure to pass the budget would mean that the international community might have to step in.
Times, Sunday Times
Some say that they should escalate the row, refuse to pass a budget and shut down the government.
Times, Sunday Times
He needs the party's continued support to pass a budget.
Times,Sunday Times
In his weekly radio address, the president accused them of being 'more concerned with appeasing an extreme faction of their party than working to pass a budget'.
Times, Sunday Times
The legislature has 45 days to pass a budget plan.
Times, Sunday Times
police budget
Certain chief constables have expressed concern over proposed cuts to police budgets.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
They want more police on streets so they worry about cuts to police budgets.
The Sun (2010)
When the Government announced cuts to police budgets, Labour predicted an avalanche of crime.
The Sun (2013)
procurement budget
He added: 'The procurement budget is shot to pieces and there is simply no money in it to buy the ships that the navy needs.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
He is also expected to pledge to cut the number of suppliers used by the company, and to tighten its procurement budget.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
This amount is in addition to the 243 billion annual public procurement budget.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
production budget
But there isn't a huge production budget.
The Sun (2009)
The production budget of the 1978 movie was $55 million.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Our production budget doesn't stretch to business class air travel.
The Sun (2015)
project a budget
The permit will cost 4%-5% of the project budget, and architect's fees will add another 6%-10%.
Times, Sunday Times
Pending approval, the project budget has been cut from about $200 million in 2012 to $50 million in 2013.
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Material decision factors should consider the project budget, nature of the project and the required durability.
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The project budget was estimated at $50 million, including $26 million for restoring the building.
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The new stadium will be constructed in a public/private partnership with a project budget of $622 million.
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protect a budget
Ministers promised to protect the schools budget from the spending cuts affecting the rest of the public sector.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The NHS, schools and foreign aid budgets are all protected .
The Sun (2013)
All of us would like to protect the budget but none of us know the future economic situation.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
realistic budget
Set a realistic budget and stick to it.
The Sun (2013)
This should help you set yourself realistic monthly budgets.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Is £30 million a realistic budget for a Formula One team?
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
reduce the budget
American cuts, introduced on March 1, are meant to reduce the defence budget by about 10 %.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The Chancellor also reduced the £200 billion social security budget, which has doubled in ten years.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The elderly could be hit by a reduced social care budget.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
research budget
And profits feed research budgets.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
France have reacted by spending more on science, while the British froze their research budget.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The US National Cancer Institute alone had a 2016 research budget topping $5 billion.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
salary budget
Each team has a salary budget of just $3.5m to cover a squad of 28 players.
Times, Sunday Times
Previously, the only restrictions on team salaries were that wage bills were limited to 50% of turnover and that 10% of the salary budget had to be held in reserve.
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Only 12 per cent of the employers plan to cut salary budgets next year, down from 45 per cent last year.
Globe and Mail
set a budget
Set a realistic budget and stick to it.
The Sun (2014)
Retail experts claim shoppers can slash bills by 20 per cent by setting a weekly budget to shop online.
The Sun (2014)
No budget is set yet, but we can't afford five-star luxury.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
shrink a budget
This approach provides yet another excuse to shrink budgets and whittle down services.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Shrinking budgets have forced new priorities.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
But these social programmes should not depend only on the Government's shrinking social budget.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
spending budget
Families are expected to spend far less on alcohol and tobacco - only 2.5 per cent of their spending budget in 2030, down from 8.3 per cent in 1963.
Times, Sunday Times
History, tradition, playing squad, spending budget, lifestyle for the family.
The Sun
Households have had to pare back their discretionary spending habits as rising inflation pushes their spending budget toward essentials such as food, household products and utilities.
Times, Sunday Times
Recommends more devolution of public spending budgets to foster efficiency.
Times, Sunday Times
Some spending budgeted for the first half has been deferred.
Times, Sunday Times
staffing budget
Their pay was frozen this year at €95,482, as were their office allowances of €51,588 and staffing budget of up to €254,208.
Times, Sunday Times
We should abandon national pay scales, and local managers should recruit and promote the staff they need within staffing budgets negotiated with their employers.
Times, Sunday Times
More generous staffing budgets pushed costs to 98 million last year, up 7 per cent, according to figures released yesterday by the parliamentary spending watchdog.
Times, Sunday Times
He says the funding will come from savings on staffing budgets and by not filling vacant posts.
Times, Sunday Times
stretch the budget
She has some great ideas for stretching the family meal budget.
The Sun (2014)
I do not claim expenses as this would further dilute the school's already stretched budget.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Will people still be willing to pay for extra services on their phones when their budgets are stretched ?
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
submit a budget
When he refused to submit a budget for a screenplay that he considered 'a piece of old rubbish', he decided to turn his hand to writing.
Times, Sunday Times
In 2007, again due to alleged mismanagement by the trustees, the board will try to submit a budget with a deficit of $84 million.
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The trustees submit a budget to the city government, but have no taxing authority of their own.
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Every year, the minister submits a budget to the legislature outlining anticipated expenditures and revenues for the next twelve months.
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Using his experience in his father's business of drawing up plans and estimating costs, he submitted a budget of 50,000 for capital expenditure and 5,000 for annual running costs.
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suit a budget
Decide on your ideal area and see what properties suit your budget.
The Sun (2008)
Wine from around the world has been carefully chosen to suit all budgets.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Most footwear stores have their own selection to suit any budget.
The Sun (2009)
tight budget
With a good eye, you can buy highly decorative sculpture on a tight budget.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
If you're on a tight budget, look for cruises with drinks and gratuities included.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
We were on a pretty tight budget back then.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
tiny budget
I have a tiny budget of £50. Any ideas?
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
You can give your kitchen a new look on a tiny budget.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The film was made on a tiny budget with no stars and shaky camerawork but became a box office sensation.
The Sun (2006)
total budget
There are a number of basic approaches to setting the total budget.
Basic Marketing. Principles and Practice (1986)
As chief executive of the NHS he is responsible for a total budget of £100 billion, and 1.7 million employees.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The average amount is your total budget divided by the number of people you need to buy for.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
transport budget
The transport budget was cut by 9 per cent.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
This represents only 3 to 4 per cent of the annual transport budget.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Train, bus and Tube passengers face big fare rises with the transport budget cut by a fifth.
The Sun (2010)
travel budget
The travel budget must have been running out too.
Times, Sunday Times
When it comes to wringing the most out of your travel budget, it's a numbers game.
Times, Sunday Times
There also must have been money in the travel budget this season.
Globe and Mail
His travel budget rose by almost 40 per cent between his first and second six months in the job.
Times, Sunday Times
Due to a low travel budget, his teams would regularly have to play as many as three games in one trek.
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trim a budget
Brides can trim the budget by opting for a designer outfit, which could cost a fraction of the price of a wedding dress.
Times, Sunday Times
The district has already taken steps to trim the budget.
Houston Chronicle
He called effects like these creative ways to trim the budget.
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But he gave up on such dreams in the 1990s after studios kept trimming the budget for his large-scale martial fantasies.
Times, Sunday Times
The rising cost of vegetables means families will not be able to trim their budgets.
Times, Sunday Times
unlimited budget
People who have an unlimited budget can eat whatever they want in whatever quantity they choose.
Times, Sunday Times
Two years and an unlimited budget to prepare for one match?
Times, Sunday Times
This look — homely, but on an unlimited budget — seems set to be widely copied in homes that cost 400,000, rather than 46.5 million.
Times, Sunday Times
There's just not an unlimited budget.
Globe and Mail
The original group changed over the decades, faces and minds were constantly being and handed an unlimited budget to explore and experiment.
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upcoming budget
Neither the upcoming budget crisis nor the tax hike that will result will weaken the ardour.
Globe and Mail
This was to be announced in an upcoming budget.
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He faced a then $61 million shortfall in the upcoming budget.
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welfare budget
And he must take 10 billion off the welfare budget.
Times, Sunday Times
This government was elected with a mandate to implement further savings from the 220bn welfare budget.
Times, Sunday Times
He insisted the 12billion chopped from the welfare budget would mean a squeeze on ministries would continue at the same pace.
The Sun
In getting to grips with the welfare budget, alongside creating an economy which fosters opportunity, we are changing this country for the better.
The Sun
The bill has risen by more than 1.5 billion a year since 2010, making it the second-largest item on the country's welfare budget after pensions.
Times, Sunday Times
yearly budget
A key proposal will see hospitals losing up to three or four per cent of their yearly budget if they fail to deliver a top-quality service.
The Sun
This seems understandable when one considers that in 1888, the municipalitys yearly budget amounted to 3,539.19.
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Excluding research funding, it has a yearly budget of nearly $42 million.
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By 2006, its yearly budget had increased to $25,000.
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By 1999, it had grown to a yearly budget of $8,000.
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Translations:
Chinese: 预算, 价格低廉的
Japanese: 予算, 格安の
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