budget

Recorded since 1432 as Middle English bogett, bouget, bowgette (“leather pouch”), borrowed from Old French bougette, the diminutive of bouge (“leather bag, wallet”) (also the root of bulge), itself from Late Latin bulga (“leather bag, bellow”), of Gaulish origin (Celtic, compare Old Irish bolg (“bag”), Breton bolc’h (“flax pod”)), a common root with the Germanic family (compare Dutch balg (“bellows”)), from the Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ-. More at belly.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʌdʒ.ɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ʌdʒɪt

budget (plural budgets)

1. The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or time-frame.
   • 2008, David Mutimer, Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs 2002 (page 220)

     The latest Tory budget continued the trend begun in 2000 by making further small cuts in family income taxes.

   • 2009, Andrew Paquette, Computer Graphics for Artists II: Environments and Characters

     The most common poly budget in use for games at the time of this writing is between 5,000 and 10,000 tris.

2. An itemized summary of intended expenditure; usually coupled with expected revenue.
3. (obsolete) A wallet, purse or bag.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:

     With that out of his bouget forth he drew / Great store of treasure, therewith him to tempt [...].

4. (obsolete) A compact collection of things.
5. (obsolete, military) A socket in which the end of a cavalry carbine rests.

• French: budget
  • Armenian: բյուջե (byuǰe), պյուտճե (pyutče)
  • German: Budget
  • Russian: бюдже́т (bjudžét)

budget (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to a budget.
2. Appropriate to a restricted budget.

   We flew on a budget airline.

   • 1991, The YS Official Top 100 Part 3 (in Your Sinclair issue 72, December 1991)

     A classic budget game, there isn't really anything outstanding about Rescue at all.

• (appropriate to a restricted budget): low-cost

budget (third-person singular simple present budgets, present participle budgeting, simple past and past participle budgeted)

1. (intransitive) To construct or draw up a budget.

   Budgeting is even harder in times of recession

2. (transitive) To provide funds, allow for in a budget.

   The PM’s pet projects are budgeted rather generously

3. (transitive) To plan for the use of in a budget.

   The prestigious building project is budgeted in great detail, from warf facilities to the protocollary opening.

budget m

1. budget

• See also rozpočet

• budget in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• budget in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed from French budget, from English budget.

budget n (singular definite budgetet, plural indefinite budgeter)

1. budget

Borrowed from English budget.

• IPA^(key): /bʏˈdʒɛt/, /bʏtˈʃɛt/

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budget n (plural budgetten or budgets, diminutive budgetje n)

1. a budget

• begroting

• budgetair
• budgetrecht n
• budgetteren

• “budget” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

Borrowed from English budget.

• IPA^(key): /by.dʒɛ/

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budget m (plural budgets)

1. A budget

• budgétaire
• budgétivore m & m or f

• “budget” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from English budget.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbadd͡ʒet/, /ˈbudd͡ʒet/
• Hyphenation: bùd‧get

budget m (invariable)

1. A budget

• budgetario

Borrowed from English budget.

budget c

1. a budget (a plan for economic spending)

• When used as a prefix, can also mean cheap.

• budget in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)