budgets
/ˈbʌd͡ʒ.ɪts/
budgets is the plural of budget.
budgets is the third-person singular simple present indicative of budget.
Meaning of budget
Noun
budget (plural budgets)
- The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or timeframe.
- limited 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
- 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.
Phrases with budgets
Questions about budgets
- What is budgets the plural of?
- Budgets is the plural of budget.
- How do you pronounce budgets?
- Budgets is pronounced /ˈbʌd͡ʒ.ɪts/.
Words near budgets in the dictionary
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