budget

Meaning

Noun

1. The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or timeframe.
2. The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or timeframe.
3. An itemized summary of intended expenditure; usually coupled with expected revenue.
4. (obsolete) A wallet, purse or bag.
5. (obsolete) A compact collection of things.
6. (obsolete) A socket in which the end of a cavalry carbine rests.

Adj

Appropriate to a restricted budget.

Verb

1. To construct or draw up a budget.
2. To provide funds, allow for in a budget.
3. To plan for the use of in a budget.

Synonyms

estimate

stock

estimation

forecast

financial plan

operating expenses

bankroll

budgetary

budget for

budgeting

calculate

control

degree

dominance

dominant

dominate

domination

estimate of cost

estimates

finance

finances

fund

funds

govern

judgement

level

mark

monetary fund

order

predominant

predominate

predomination

purse

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ruling

sanction

statement

superintendence

a sum of money

monetary resource

pecuniary resource

set aside for

administer

draw up a budget

allocate

allocate funds

allocation

approximate

arrange

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbʌd͡ʒ.ɪt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: bogett

Cognate with Old Irish: bolg

Cognate with Breton: bolc’h

Cognate with Dutch: balg

In summary

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”), which derives from Gaulish *bolgā (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 *bʰelǵʰ-. More at belly.