overbudget
overbudget adjective: costing more than budgeted.
Adjective
overbudget (comparative more overbudget, superlative most overbudget)
- Costing more than budgeted
- The mayor's control of the big stuff has been responsible, in recent years, for the hideous rehab of Soldier Field, the construction of the vastly overbudget Millennium Park, the destruction of a municipal airport under cover of darkness, the continued rise in property taxes, the overpriced and...2006 September 22, Ben Joravsky, “All the King's Aldermen”, in Chicago Reader
- There’s the overbudget, out-of-control drama about the Vietnam War, starring the washed-up action hero Tugg Speedman, the drug-addled comedian Jeff Portnoy and the Oscar-winner Kirk Lazarus, a white Australian actor who has undergone repigmentation surgery to play a black American soldier.2008 August 10, Dave Itzkoff, “Spoof Within a Movie Within a Movie Within ...”, in New York Times
Verb
overbudget (third-person singular simple present overbudgets, present participle overbudgeting, simple past and past participle overbudgeted)
- To budget a greater amount that is needed.
Examples of overbudget in a sentence
- TransCanada and Exxon are involved in another major Arctic pipeline, the long-stalled and overbudget Mackenzie Gas Project in northern Canada.2009 June 12, Lauren Krugel, “ExxonMobil is backing TransCanada Alaska line”, in Toronto Star:
- One of London's key business groups is calling on the new government not to use the much-delayed and overbudget Crossrail project as a reason to withhold support for Crossrail 2.2019 December 18, Paul Stephen, “London businesses reiterate backing for Crossrail 2”, in Rail, page 18:
Forms of overbudget
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more overbudget |
| superlative | most overbudget |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | overbudgets |
| present participle | overbudgeting |
| past participle | overbudgeted |
| past | overbudgeted |
Origin of overbudget
From over- + budget.
Questions about overbudget
- What does overbudget mean?
- Overbudget means costing more than budgeted.
- How do you use overbudget in a sentence?
- TransCanada and Exxon are involved in another major Arctic pipeline, the long-stalled and overbudget Mackenzie Gas Project in northern Canada.
- What part of speech is overbudget?
- Overbudget can be an adjective or a verb.
Words near overbudget in the dictionary
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