Meaning of overbudget | Babel Free

Definitions

Costing more than budgeted

Examples

“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 much delayed Brown Line reconstruction (which is causing long delays on the Red Line), and the Pink Line addition coming at the expense of other services on the west side, as well as sweeping education and public housing policy changes that allowed Daley appointees to hold thousands of kids back or kick thousands of families out of their homes.”

“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.”

“TransCanada and Exxon are involved in another major Arctic pipeline, the long-stalled and overbudget Mackenzie Gas Project in northern Canada.”

“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.”

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