budget

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[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology

Recorded since 1432 as Middle English bogett, bouget, bowgette (leather pouch), from Old French bougette, the diminutive of bouge (leather bag, wallet) (also the root of bulge), itself from Latin bulga (leather bag, bellow), of Gaulish origin (Celtic, cf. Old Irish bolg (bag), Breton bolc’h (flax pod)), a common root with the Germanic family (cfr. Dutch balg (child)), from the Proto-Indo-European *bhelgh-.

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Singular
budget

Plural
budgets

budget (plural budgets)

  1. The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or time-frame.
  2. An itemized summary of intended expenditure; usually coupled with expected revenue.

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budget (not comparable)

Positive
budget

Comparative
not comparable

Superlative
none (absolute)

  1. Of or relating to a budget.
  2. Appropriate to a restricted budget.
    We flew on a budget airline.

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  • (appropriate to a restricted budget): low-cost

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[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to budget

Third person singular
budgets

Simple past
budgeted

Past participle
budgeted

Present participle
budgeting

to budget (third-person singular simple present budgets, present participle budgeting, simple past and past participle budgeted)

  1. (intransitive) To construct or draw up a budget.
    Budgetting is even harder in times of recession
  2. (transitive) To provide funds, allow for in a budget.
    The PM’s pet projects are budgetted rather generously
  3. (transitive) To plan for the use of in a budget.
  4. The prestige building project is budgeted in great detail, from warf facilities to the protocollary opening

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[edit] Dutch

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  • IPA: /bydʒɛt/ or /bydʒe/

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From English, cfr. supra.

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budget n. (plural budgetten or budgets, diminutive budgetje, diminutive plural budgetjes)

  1. A budget.

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  • budget” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

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From English, cfr. supra.

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budget m. (plural budgets)

  1. A budget

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[edit] Italian

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[edit] Noun

budget m. inv.

  1. A budget

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