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to budget

to budget

36 3.0
To plan how much money to spend over a period
  • verb
  • /ˈbʌdʒɪt/
translation icon : presupuestar
  • 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.

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Examples

  • That's why to be rich, you have to budget like the rich.

  • I'm asking for what you already budgeted.

  • - I may have to budget more for my music.

  • It's hard to budget these things in advance.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • He said the company's reorganizing all the stations and they've budgeted us for a new senior producer.

  • To save for a vacation, you need to budget your expenses carefully each month.

Synonyms

to budget for
vsto budget
24 2.7

Plan how much money to set aside for a purpose

plans how much to spend over a set period rather than one purpose

Antonyms

7 4.4

To use more money than you can afford or planned to use

Idioms

A desire for expensive things you cannot afford

Phrasal Verbs

24 2.7

Plan how much money to set aside for a purpose

Make your money last longer by spending carefully

To increase the money available for a project or plan

To cut spending by removing unnecessary costs from a budget

Spend more money than planned for a project

To take action to solve a money problem in a company or government

Compounds

364 3.9

A plan where spending does not exceed income

budget deficit
  • Specialized
62 3.7

A situation when a budget has more spending than income, for example for a government or company

57 2.8

Less money given to a department or service in a budget

32 3.0

Planned or made to cost little money

19 3.8

More expensive than planned for a project

A U.S. government agency that helps the President prepare and oversee the federal budget

10 2.9

A situation with only a little money to spend

operating budget
  • Specialized
7 3.3

A plan showing expected income and expenses for an organization's daily work not including big one-time purchases

5 3.9

A small amount of money for a project or event

budget constraint
  • Specialized
4 4.0

A limit on how much money you can spend

project budget
  • Specialized
1 3.1

A plan showing how much money a project needs and where it will be spent

A person who buys things at the lowest prices

A cheaper choice that costs less than similar items

budget-zilla
  • Slang
9.2

A project that costs much more money than planned

budget-zilla
  • Offensive
9.6

A person who causes or allows a project to cost much more than planned

fuss-budget
  • Informal
9.9

A person who worries about small things for no reason

spenno budget
  • Australian
9.9

A very small amount of money to spend on things

How Detailed

to itemize
  • US
22 4.1
earmark
72 4.6
to allocate
92 4.5
to budget
36 3.0
estimate
133 2.8

Surface Forms

budget infinitive
budgeted past
budgeted past participle
budgeting present participle
budgets third person singular

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.