Budget
['bʌdʒɪt]
Definition
(noun.) a summary of intended expenditures along with proposals for how to meet them; 'the president submitted the annual budget to Congress'.
(noun.) a sum of money allocated for a particular purpose; 'the laboratory runs on a budget of a million a year'.
(verb.) make a budget.
Editor: Timmy--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions.
(n.) The annual financial statement which the British chancellor of the exchequer makes in the House of Commons. It comprehends a general view of the finances of the country, with the proposed plan of taxation for the ensuing year. The term is sometimes applied to a similar statement in other countries.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Bag (with its contents), pack, packet, parcel, package, bundle, roll.[2]. Stock, store, batch, lot, set, assortment, collection.
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Definition
n. a sack with its contents: a compact collection of things: a socket in which the end of a cavalry carbine rests: that miscellaneous collection of matters which aggregate into the annual financial statement made to parliament by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a fire budget, denotes disagreement over small matters.
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Examples
- Why then isn't there a budget, a large, comprehensive budget, precise and informing, in which provision is made for beginning to civilize Chicago? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The Thursday produced a second budget of news from Penelope. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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