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Meaning of budget | Babel Free

Noun masculine CEFR B2 Frequent
ˈbʌd͡ʒ.ɪt

Definitions

  1. estimated
  2. The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or timeframe.
  3. A relatively small amount of available money.
  4. To make or use a budget.
  5. An itemized summary of intended expenditure; usually coupled with expected revenue.
  6. estimate
  7. An estimate of government spending and government revenue for the coming year. If government spending is higher than government revenue, there is a budget deficit. If government spending is lower than government revenue, there is a budget surplus.
  8. A wallet, purse or bag.
    obsolete
  9. reason, motive
  10. A measurable whole:amount, body, bulk, corpus, quantity, quantum.
  11. A compact collection of things.
    obsolete
  12. past participle of presuponer
  13. any plan showing how money is to be spent. my budget for the month. begroting ميزانيّه، مُوازَنَه бюджет orçamento rozpočet das Budget; der Etat budget προϋπολογισμόςpresupuesto eelarve بودجه budjetti budgetתקציב बजट budžet költségvetés anggaran bilancio, budget 予算 예산 biudžetas budžets perbelanjaan begrotingbudsjett; overslagbudżet بودیجه، سرمایه orçamento buget бюджет rozpočet proračun budžet budget งบประมาณ bütçe 預算 бюджет میزانیہ ، تخمینہ آمدنی و خرچ ngân sách 预算
  14. A socket in which the end of a cavalry carbine rests.
    obsolete
  15. presupuesto.
  16. An itemized summary of estimated or intended expenditures for a given period along with proposals for financing them: submitted the annual budget to Congress.
  17. A stock or collection with definite limits: "his budget of general knowledge" (William Hazlitt).
  18. Appalachian Mountains A wallet or small pouch.
    Appalachian Mountains
  19. To plan in advance the expenditure of: needed help budgeting our income; budgeted my time wisely.
  20. To enter or account for in a budget: forgot to budget the car payments.

Equivalents

Afrikaans begroting
Azərbaycanca büdcə
Български бюджет
Bosanski budžet буџет
Čeština rozpočet
Deutsch billig- Budget Etat Haushalt
Ελληνικά προϋπολογισμός
Esperanto budĝeto buĝeto
Eesti eelarve
Français budget budgétaire
Galego orzamento
עברית תקציב
हिन्दी बजट
Hrvatski budžet буџет
Bahasa Indonesia anggaran bujet irit
Italiano bilancio budget
ქართული ბიუჯეტი
ខ្មែរ ថវិកា
한국어 예산
Kurdî butçe tanî tanî tanî
Lietuvių biudžetas
Македонски буџет
Bahasa Melayu bajet belanjawan perbelanjaan
မြန်မာဘာသာ ဘတ်ဂျက်
Română buget
Slovenčina rozpočet
Српски budžet буџет
Svenska budget budgetera
Kiswahili bajeti
Türkçe bütçe
ئۇيغۇرچە بۇدجېت
Українська бюджет
Tiếng Việt ngân sách

Examples

“limited budget”
“unlimited budget”
“tight budget”
“within the budget”
“over the budget”
“At the other extreme, with limitless budgets all they have to do is dream up amazing lighting rigs to be constructed and operated by the huge team of gaffers and sparks, with their generators, discharge lights, flags, gobos and brutes.”
“The latest Tory budget continued the trend begun in 2000 by making further small cuts in family income taxes.”
“The most common poly budget in use for games at the time of this writing is between 5,000 and 10,000 tris.”
“We're on a budget, so we can't afford to eat at that restaurant.”
“With that out of his bouget forth he drew / Great store of treasure, therewith him to tempt […]”
“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.”
“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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