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- [buhj-it]
- /ˈbʌdʒ ɪt/
- /ˈbʌdʒɪt/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [buhj-it]
- /ˈbʌdʒ ɪt/
Definitions of budget word
- countable noun budget Your budget is the amount of money that you have available to spend. The budget for something is the amount of money that a person, organization, or country has available to spend on it. 3
- countable noun budget The budget of an organization or country is its financial situation, considered as the difference between the money it receives and the money it spends. 3
- proper noun budget In Britain, the Budget is the financial plan in which the government states how much money it intends to raise through taxes and how it intends to spend it. The Budget is also the speech in which this plan is announced. 3
- verb budget If you budget certain amounts of money for particular things, you decide that you can afford to spend those amounts on those things. 3
- adjective budget Budget is used in advertising to suggest that something is being sold cheaply. 3
- noun budget an itemized summary of expected income and expenditure of a country, company, etc, over a specified period, usually a financial year 3
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Origin of budget
First appearance:
before 1400 One of the 24% oldest English words
1400-50; late Middle English bowgett < Middle French bougette (bouge bag (< Latin bulga; see bulge) + -ette -ette)
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Parts of speech for Budget
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
budget popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 96% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
budget usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for budget
verb budget
- allocate — If one item or share of something is allocated to a particular person or for a particular purpose, it is given to that person or used for that purpose.
- calculate — If you calculate a number or amount, you discover it from information that you already have, by using arithmetic, mathematics, or a special machine.
- compute — To compute a quantity or number means to calculate it.
- apportion — When you apportion something such as blame, you decide how much of it different people deserve or should be given.
- predict — to declare or tell in advance; prophesy; foretell: to predict the weather; to predict the fall of a civilization.
Antonyms for budget
noun budget
- debt — A debt is a sum of money that you owe someone.
Top questions with budget
- how to make a budget?
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- how to eat healthy on a budget?
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- how to plan a wedding on a budget?
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- what does a budget help you do?
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- who has to approve the budget of the us government?
- how to make a budget plan?
- what is a budget deficit?
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