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Past tense of budget

regular verb

The past tense of budget is budgeted. The past participle is also budgeted.

Forms of budget

Base form (V1)budget /ˈbʌd͡ʒ.ɪt/
Past tense (V2)budgeted
Past participle (V3)budgeted
Present participlebudgeting
Third person singularbudgets /ˈbʌd͡ʒ.ɪts/

Budgeted in a sentence

  • The PM’s pet projects are budgeted rather generously
  • The prestigious building project is budgeted in great detail, from wharf facilities to the protocolary opening.
  • Department of Agriculture has budgeted more than $1.4 billion to spend on its own research through the Agricultural Research Service.2016, Jayson Lusk, Unnaturally Delicious, →ISBN, page 205. From the entry fy
  • A wide range of techniques is available for reservoir desiltation, the cost of which needs to be budgeted for.2013, Nick Middleton, The Global Casino, →ISBN. From the entry desiltation
  • You may find in the first few months that your budgeted estimates are only noddingly close to your actual expenses.1990, Sylvia Field Porter, Sylvia Porter's your finances in the 1990s, page 25. From the entry noddingly

Meaning of budget

  1. noun The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or timeframe.
  2. noun A relatively small amount of available money.
  3. noun An itemized summary of intended expenditure; usually coupled with expected revenue.

Full definition of budget

Questions about the past tense of budget

What is the past tense of budget?
The past tense of budget is budgeted.
What is the past participle of budget?
The past participle of budget is budgeted.
Is budget a regular or irregular verb?
Budget is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: budget (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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