Synonym: allowance, ration, schedule. Similar words: drudgery, buddy, edge, ridge, acknowledge. Meaning: ['bʌdʒɪt] n. 1. a sum of money allocated for a particular purpose 2. a summary of intended expenditures along with proposals for how to meet them. v. make a budget.
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121, Feature movies always run over budget.
122, Are you doing everything possible to reduce your budget?
123, If we budget carefully, we'll be able to afford a new house.
124, The department has been shrinking year by year because of budget cuts.
125, An effort to improve security was sidetracked by budget problems.
126, Observers reckon the Bank of England will hold fire until nearer the Budget.
127, The Chancellor will try to claw back £3.5 billion in next year's Budget.
128, The parents were active in campaigning against cuts to the education budget.
129, A budget is defined as 'a plan of action expressed in money terms'.
130, A large part of the budget will be spent on advertising.
131, The major aviation companies need to cut prices if they are to compete with budget airlines.
132, The President has again collided with Congress over his budget plans.
133, The Chancellor of the Exchequer will take the floor for his Budget speech at 3.00 p.m.
134, Measured against our budget last year, $2.7 million seems small.
135, In the budget before last a tax penalty on the mobile phone was introduced.
136, We are going to have to make swingeing cuts in the budget.
137, Right now in Congress, they're fiddling around with the budget and so on.
138, If we budget carefully we'll be able to afford the trip.
139, This year's budget for AIDS prevention probably won't be much higher.
140, As you know, I run the magazine on a pretty tight budget .
141, She's a student and has to watch her budget closely.
142, The budget allotment for each county is below what is needed.
143, They expressed worry about the district's current budget crisis and its vanishing middle-class work force.
144, It looks as if we're going to overrun our budget.
145, The government devotes a disproportionate share of the budget to military expenditure.
146, It will be necessary to pare this budget down considerably.
147, The budget has increased by more than a third in the last year.
148, The new proposals would absorb $80 billion of the federal budget.
149, The burning question in this year's debate over the federal budget is: whose taxes should be raised?
150, Stringent measures were introduced so that the government could balance its budget/the economy.