microbudget

English

Etymology

micro- +‎ budget

Noun

microbudget (plural microbudgets)

1. (often attributive) A very small budget.
   • 2009 July 5, Michelle Orange, “She’s a Director Who’s Just Another Dude”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Having scored a distribution deal for this microbudget film she shot with friends in Seattle over a handful of days last summer, Ms. Shelton embarked on a sort of victory lap of the festival circuit.

   • 2013, Lynda Obst, Sleepless in Hollywood, page 45:

     We now have thousands upon thousands of tiny movies made on microbudgets, financed with personal credit cards.

Usage notes

• Often refers to filmmaking budgets.