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Definition budget

Etymology

Recorded since 1432 as Middle English bogett, bouget, bowgette (“leather pouch”), borrowed from Old French bougette, the diminutive of bouge (“leather bag, wallet”) (also the root of bulge), itself from Late Latin bulga (“leather bag, bellow”), of Gaulish origin (Celtic, compare Old Irish bolg (“bag”), Breton bolc’h (“flax pod”)), a common root with the Germanic family (compare Dutch balg (“bellows”)), from the Proto-Indo-European *b?el??-. More at belly.

Noun

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.
3. (obsolete) A wallet, purse or bag.
4. (obsolete) A compact collection of things.
5. (obsolete, military) A socket in which the end of a cavalry carbine rests.

Adjective

budget (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to a budget.
2. Appropriate to a restricted budget.

Verb

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.
2. (transitive) To provide funds, allow for in a budget.
3. (transitive) To plan for the use of in a budget.

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