BUDGET


Meaning of BUDGET in English

(~s, ~ing, ~ed)

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.

1.

Your ~ is the amount of money that you have available to spend. The ~ for something is the amount of money that a person, organization, or country has available to spend on it. (BUSINESS)

She will design a fantastic new kitchen for you–and all within your ~...

Someone had furnished the place on a tight ~...

This year’s ~ for AIDS prevention probably won’t be much higher.

N-COUNT: with supp

2.

The ~ 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 ~ each year.

...his readiness to raise taxes as part of an effort to cut the ~ deficit.

N-COUNT

3.

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.

...other indirect tax changes announced in the Budget.

N-PROPER

4.

If you ~ certain amounts of money for particular things, you decide that you can afford to spend those amounts on those things.

The company has ~ed $10 million for advertising...

The movie is only ~ed at $10 million...

I’m learning how to ~.

VERB: V amount for n, be V-ed at amount, V, also V amount to-inf

~ing

We have continued to exercise caution in our ~ing for the current year.

N-UNCOUNT

5.

Budget is used in advertising to suggest that something is being sold cheaply.

Cheap flights are available from ~ travel agents from ?240.

= economy

ADJ: ADJ n

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