This approach provides yet another excuse to shrinkbudgets and whittle down services.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Shrinkingbudgets 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)
Definition of 'budget'
budget
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countable noun
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.
Definition of 'shrink'
shrink
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verb
If something shrinks or something else shrinks it, it becomes smaller.