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I'm really keen to watch what is spilled out or how Bill English prepares us for what's coming in the budget, there used to be a time when the budget was a very secret document that came out on the day, now there tends to be lots of leaks about the budget or hints about the budget.

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  1. noun An itemized summary of estimated or intended expenditures for a given period along with proposals for financing them: submitted the annual budget to Congress.
  2. noun A systematic plan for the expenditure of a usually fixed resource, such as money or time, during a given period: A new car will not be part of our budget this year.
  3. noun The total sum of money allocated for a particular purpose or period of time: a project with an annual budget of five million dollars.
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fund ·  spend ·  revenue ·  tax ·  management ·  resource ·  schedule ·  cost ·  expenditure ·  finance ·  allocation ·  sale

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budget:   budgeting ·  budgets ·  budgeted
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  1. Middle English bouget, wallet, from Old French bougette, diminutive of bouge, leather bag, from Latin bulga, of Celtic origin; see bhelgh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also bowget; from French bougette (= Italian bolgetta), diminutive of Old French bouge, a bag: see budge. Hence, in sense 4, D. and F. budget.
 

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