Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An itemized summary of estimated or intended expenditures for a given period along with proposals for financing them: submitted the annual budget to Congress.
- n. 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.
- n. The total sum of money allocated for a particular purpose or period of time: a project with an annual budget of five million dollars.
- n. A stock or collection with definite limits: "his budget of general knowledge” ( William Hazlitt).
- n. Appalachian Mountains A wallet or small pouch.
- v. To plan in advance the expenditure of: needed help budgeting our income; budgeted my time wisely.
- v. To enter or account for in a budget: forgot to budget the car payments.
- v. To make or use a budget.
- adj. Of or relating to a budget: budget items approved by Congress.
- adj. Appropriate for a restricted budget; inexpensive: a budget car; budget meals.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A small bag or sack; a pouch or portable depository for miscellaneous articles: now chiefly figurative: as, to open a budget of news.
- n. A stock or store; a collection: as, a budget of news.
- n. A pocket used by tilers to hold nails.
- n. In Great Britain, the annual financial statement which the chancellor of the exchequer makes in the House of Commons, sitting as a committee of ways and means. In making this statement the minister gives a view of the general financial policy of the government, and at the same time presents an estimate of the probable income and expenditure for the following twelve months, and a statement of what taxes it is intended to reduce or abolish, or what new ones it may be necessary to impose.
- n. Hence Any similar official estimate and statement.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete A wallet, purse or bag.
- n. The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or time-frame.
- n. An itemized summary of intended expenditure; usually coupled with expected revenue.
- adj. Of or relating to a budget.
- adj. Appropriate to a restricted budget.
- v. intransitive To construct or draw up a budget.
- v. transitive To provide funds, allow for in a budget.
- v. transitive To plan for the use of in a budget.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation.
- n. The annual financial statement which the British chancellor of the exchequer makes in the House of Commons. It comprehends a general view of the finances of the country, with the proposed plan of taxation for the ensuing year. The term is sometimes applied to a similar statement in other countries.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a summary of intended expenditures along with proposals for how to meet them
- v. make a budget
- n. a sum of money allocated for a particular purpose
Etymologies
- Recorded since 1432 as Middle English bogett, bouget, bowgette ("leather pouch"), from Old French bougette, the diminutive of bouge ("leather bag, wallet") (also the root of bulge), itself from Latin bulga ("leather bag, bellow"), of Gaulish origin (Celtic, compare Old Irish bolg ("bag"), Breton bolc’h ("flax pod")), a common root with the Germanic family (compare Dutch balg ("child")), from the Proto-Indo-European *bhelgh-. (Wiktionary)
- 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. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“• Poll shows Lib Dem supporters ready to leave the party after the massive budget cuts announced by the coalition in the emergency budget• G20 communiqué expected to avoid criticism of austerity programmes in Europe”
The Guardian: Half of Liberal Democrat voters ready to defect after VAT rise
“Akaka���s bill gives the czar a budget for p.r. but no oversight over anyone else���s budget��� [and the] bill doesn���t specify to whom the czar would report ��� which leaves no one responsible when goals aren���t met.”
“Each new budget message explained that, because of unforeseen circumstances, the promise of the previous year had not been met, but next year things would be better; next year there would be a balanced budget .”
“5: In April 2009 the Daily Telegraph set up a "Twitterfall" for its coverage of the budget, in which it tried to include any tweets with the tag "#budget".”
“\ "Instead, it is the process by which a particular type of budget is developed -- a Performance Budget (or \" program performance budget\ ").”
“But at least they are now using the phrase "budget cuts" in polite company.”
“An 18th century pamphlet The Budget Opened likened Sir Robert Walpole to a mountebank opening his ` wallet of quack medicines and conjuring tricks '-- a less polite explanation of the term budget in its financial sense than the discreeter view that it refers to the ` Chancellor's leather bag or dispatch box,' hence to its contents.”
“Good news ... if you are one of the taxpayers of the City of Aurora who wants to see government spend less, this budget is the first major step in that direction.”
“The Republicans balancing a budget is about as likely as Jamaica dominating the future of world curling.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘budget’.
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BUDG - general terms
Budgetese - not a sexy topic but a very comprehensive list of words and collocations used in EU circles. Budgeting experts please comment and expand.
heading, across-the-board ..., emergency reserve, frontload, mopping-up, performance reserve, positive margin, negative margin, public finances, structural operat..., administrative ex..., management of EU ... and 657 more...
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EU - Eurovoc - European Communities
AAMS countries, access to Communi..., access to informa..., accession criteria, accession negotia..., accession to an a..., accession to the ..., accession to the ..., ACP countries, ACP-EC Committee ..., ACP-EC Convention, ACP-EC Council and 1088 more...
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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CONT - general terms
additionality, audit trail, accounting standards, auditing standards, general audit obj..., a posteriori audit, a priori audit, above board, acceptable error ..., access rights, accountability, accountable entities and 1283 more...
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museum words
words from work
provenance, accession, deaccession, conservation, preparator, registrar, curator, jargon, Oz clip, bell plate, stretcher, ornate and 115 more...
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POL - legislation
US Congress/Senate + Westminster + European Parliament usage
across the desk, act, action, adjournment, adjournment sine die, adoption, advise and consent, amendment, analysis of the b..., apportionment, appropriation, appropriations limit and 652 more...
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POL - campaign tokenisms
Positive words and vague promises. THE words and expressions to use when you want to win over the masses or just don't know what to say.
"CAPITAL" stands for the administrative capital...deserve, deserve better, destiny, determination, determine, determine the wil..., dialogue, differentiation, difficult question, disappointments, diverse, diversity and 751 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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EU - Eurovoc - international relations
ABM Agreement, accession to a co..., accession to a tr..., accession to an a..., achievement of peace, ACP-EC Convention, advanced technolo..., aerospace industry, African organisation, aggression, agreement, agricultural coop... and 851 more...
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Middle-class neuroses
Many of the phenomena herein listed are not exclusively middle-class, having expanded therefrom. This is part mockery, part social investigation; for my part, I'm laughing as much at myself as any...
phantom fat, miniskirt paradox, finding oneself, fear of graduation, pet therapy, keeping up with t..., being too middle-..., midlife crisis, pronoun guilt, what if jimmy isn..., suv, foreclosure and 3 more...
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US - What is Bill talking about - Sep...
The 100 most frequent words of Bill Clinton’s Speech to the Democratic National Convention
america, american, arithmetic, attacked, barack, believe, better, bill, budget, care, class, college and 86 more...
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1500 word lists
TOEFL iBT - 1500 Academic Words
exhume, excess, explode, exceed, expenditure, expectant, exhibition, eutrophication, eruption, erode, ethical, enterprise and 142 more...
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EU Buzz - 100 most active collocation...
The 100 most frequent constituents of EU collocations. People working for the EU are able to complete any of these words to a multiple-word expression with ease. Try it out if you are one! For a gr...
accession, acquis, act, action, agenda, agreement, aid, area, assistance, association, base, budget and 88 more...
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Get, Got, Gotten
get a move on, misbegotten, got the gimmes, don't get me started, man's gotta eat, get a life, get lost, got religion, cat got your tongue?, get together, get the lead out, got milk? and 72 more...
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Tools with which to fight The Soulles...
Words whose correct usage encourage freedom, but whose constant misuse by various levels of sleazy politicians (I know, redundant, but I cannot help myself) leads the unwary into believing the prec...
Constitution, equity, reform, change, investment, future, clear, transparency, reason, accountability, outcome, progressive and 8 more...
Tweets
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