budget
UK/ˈbʌd͡ʒ.ɪt//ˈbʌd͡ʒ.ɪt/
budget noun: the amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or timeframe.
Noun
budget (plural budgets)
- The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or timeframe.
- limited budget
- unlimited budget
- A relatively small amount of available money.
- We're on a budget, so we can't afford to eat at that restaurant.
- An itemized summary of intended expenditure; usually coupled with expected revenue.
- A wallet, purse or bag.
- With that out of his bouget forth he drew / Great store of treasure, therewith him to tempt […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
- The Bread of my Companions vvas halfe baked Dough, of round forme, vvhich they bake vvith putting a hot ſtone into the Dough, and rolling it, caſt it into the fire, ſo that the out-ſide is ſcorched, the in-ſide unbaked. This they carried in their Budgets, but my ſtomacke could not beare it.1625, [Samuel] Purchas, “Late Changes of State and Religion in Ethiopia, with Other Remarkable Obseruations”, in Purchas His Pilgrimes. […], 2nd part, London: […] William Stansby for Henrie...
- A compact collection of things.
- I set off, therefore, in high spirits, for I felt that I had done good work and was bringing back a fine budget of news for my companions.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
- A socket in which the end of a cavalry carbine rests.
Adjective
budget (not comparable)
- Appropriate to a restricted budget.
- We flew on a budget airline.
- A classic budget game, there isn't really anything outstanding about Rescue at all.1991 December, “The YS Official Top 100 Part 3”, in Your Sinclair, number 72
- Synonyms:
- bargainous, economic, low-cost, brand X, cheap, cheapie, cheapo, cheesy, competitive, dime a dozen
Verb
budget (third-person singular simple present budgets, present participle budgeting, simple past and past participle budgeted)
- To construct or draw up a budget.
- Budgeting is even harder in times of recession
- To provide funds, allow for in a budget.
- The PM’s pet projects are budgeted rather generously
- To plan for the use of in a budget.
- The prestigious building project is budgeted in great detail, from wharf facilities to the protocolary opening.
budget meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
budget in Hindi
- amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or time-frame
- बजट bajaṭ
budget in Tamil
- நிதிநிலை அறிக்கை, வரவுசெலவுக் கணக்கு, வரவுசெலவு அறிக்கை, நிதிநிலை, நிதித்திட்டம், வரவுசெலவுத் திட்டம்
budget in Marathi
- अंदाजपत्रक, अर्थसंकल्प
budget in Urdu
- amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or time-frame
- بَجَٹ bajaṭ
More languagesFewer languages
- budget in Bengali
- বাজেট bajeṭ
- budget in Telugu
- బడ్జెట్, బడ్జెటు, బడ్జెట్టు
- budget in Malayalam
- ബജറ്റ്
- budget in Kannada
- ಬಜೆಟ್, ಮುಂಗಡಪತ್ರ
- budget in Punjabi
- ਬਜਟ
- budget in Gujarati
- બજેટ, અંદાજપત્ર, બજેટનું બજેટ
- budget in Odia
- ବଜେଟ୍, ବଜେଟ
- budget in Nepali
- बजेट, बजट
- budget in Pashto
- بوديجه budija
- budget in Tagalog
- talagugulan
- budget in Arabic
- مِيزَانِيَّة mīzāniyya, مُوَازَنَة muwāzana
- budget in Malay
- belanjawan, bajet, perbelanjaan
- budget in Indonesian
- anggaran, bujet, irit
- budget in Thai
- งบ ngóp, งบประมาณ ngóp-bprà-maan
- budget in Vietnamese
- ngân sách
- budget in Myanmar
- ဘတ်ဂျက် bhatgyak
Examples of budget in a sentence
- working to a tight budget
- The latest Tory budget continued the trend begun in 2000 by making further small cuts in family income taxes.2008, David Mutimer, Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs 2002, page 220:
- The most common poly budget in use for games at the time of this writing is between 5,000 and 10,000 tris.2009, Andrew Paquette, Computer Graphics for Artists II: Environments and Characters:
- The king holds up a hand to the lute player: ‘Thank you, leave us.’ The boy stuffs his music back into his budget and goes out backwards.2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 364:
Synonyms of budget
- bargainous
- economic
- low-cost
- brand X
- cheap
- cheapie
- cheapo
- cheesy
- competitive
- dime a dozen
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Forms of budget
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | budgets |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | budgets |
| present participle | budgeting |
| past participle | budgeted |
| past | budgeted |
Origin of budget
Recorded since 1432 as Middle English bogett, bouget, bowgette (“leather pouch”), borrowed from Old French bougette, the diminutive of bouge (“leather bag, wallet”) (also the root of bulge), itself from Late Latin bulga (“leather bag, bellow”), which derives from Gaulish *bolgā (compare Old Irish bolg (“bag”), Breton bolc’h (“flax pod”)), a common root with the Germanic family (compare Dutch balg (“bellows”)), from the Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ-. More at belly.
Words formed from budget
- budget airline
- antibudget
- balanced budget
- black budget
- budgetary
- budget constraint
- budget crisis
- budget cut
- budget deficit
- budgeteer
- budgeter
- budget hawk
- budgetize
- budgetless
- budget-priced
- budgetwise
- carbon budget
- champagne taste on a beer budget
- deficit budget
- fuss-budget
- high-budget
- low-budget
- megabudget
- microbudget
- midbudget
- minibudget
- misbudget
- nonbudget
- pattern budget
- prebudget
- sales budget
- surplus budget
- zero-based budget
- overbudget
- rebudget
- underbudget
Phrases with budget
Questions about budget
- What does budget mean?
- Budget means the amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or timeframe.
- What is budget in Hindi?
- Budget in Hindi is बजट (bajaṭ). See Budget meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use budget in a sentence?
- working to a tight budget
- What part of speech is budget?
- Budget can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
- How do you pronounce budget?
- Budget is pronounced /ˈbʌd͡ʒ.ɪt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of budget?
- The plural of budget is budgets.
Words near budget in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: budget (page history and authors); budget (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); budget (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); budget (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); budget (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); budget (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); budget (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); budget (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); budget (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); budget (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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