to budget
- verb
- /ˈbʌdʒɪt/
- The university, aware that other institutions would entice its professors, budgeted funds to beat back the competition.
- budget money
- budget funds
- budgeted amount
That's why to be rich, you have to budget like the rich.
- That's why to be rich, you have to budget like the rich.
- To get this, you have to go via the budgeting app Snoop.
- Most people don't know the basics of investing and budgeting and just the simple things.
- You are more fluent with budgeting apps.
- Maybe it's true North related stuff, but you don't budget and then you're looked at suspiciously.
- So I thought, and they still wouldn't budget.
- This is like we're not wanting to budget, dude, and we need some oil.
Examples
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That's why to be rich, you have to budget like the rich.
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I'm asking for what you already budgeted.
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- I may have to budget more for my music.
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It's hard to budget these things in advance.
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I understand the company is going to budget more money for your research.
Fiction book (1994) -
And so you can work out how to budget your time in that regard.
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Basically, you need to budget for it if you run an operation on a predictable basis.
Academic text (1996) -
But I wanted to ask because you're over the number of days that we budgeted for.
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He said the company's reorganizing all the stations and they've budgeted us for a new senior producer.
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To save for a vacation, you need to budget your expenses carefully each month.
Synonyms
Plan how much money to set aside for a purpose
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- Specialized
A situation when a budget has more spending than income, for example for a government or company
A U.S. government agency that helps the President prepare and oversee the federal budget
- Specialized
A plan showing expected income and expenses for an organization's daily work not including big one-time purchases
- Specialized
A plan showing how much money a project needs and where it will be spent
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Etymology
Budget as a verb comes from an old French word bougette meaning 'small bag' that people used to carry money, and a helpful image is deciding what to put into that bag. To 'budget' is like choosing what pieces go into your money bag, so it means planning how much you will spend.