budget¹ /bujˈit/

1. (often with cap) a financial statement and programme put before parliament by the Chancellor of the Exchequer
2. A plan of domestic or business expenditure
3. A restricted spending allowance
4. The overall expenditure allowed for a specific period or occasion
5. A sack or its contents (obsolete)
6. A compact collection of things
7. News
8. A socket in which the end of a cavalry carbine rests (archaic)

Cheap, economical, inexpensive

To prepare a budget

1. To provide for in a budget
2. To organize the spending of (money, etc)

budˈgetary adjective

budget account noun

1. A special bank account, into which money is paid regularly by the bank from a customer's main account and from which payment of previously agreed recurring expenses, eg fuel bills, TV licence, is made
2. An account with a shop, into which the customer makes regular payments to cover purchases at the shop

budgetary control noun

A system of financial control of a business by constantly monitoring the activities of the various departments in terms of the individual budgets assigned to each

budget deficit financing

A deliberate budgeted excess of government expenditure over income, with the object of stimulating economic growth, financed by borrowing

budget for

To allow for, when planning one's expenditure

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