budget
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌd͡ʒ.ɪt/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈbʌd͡ʒ.ət/
rhymes: -ʌdʒɪt
Forms: form: budgets
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”), 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.
Senses: examples: text: limited budget
text: unlimited budget
text: tight budget
text: within the budget
text: over the budget
text: At the other extreme, with limitless budgets all they have to do is dream up amazing lighting rigs to be constructed and operated by the huge team of gaffers and sparks, with their generators, discharge lights, flags, gobos and brutes.
ref: 1999, Des Lyver, Graham Swainson, Basics of Video Lighting, page 103:
text: The latest Tory budget continued the trend begun in 2000 by making further small cuts in family income taxes.
ref: 2008, David Mutimer, Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs 2002, page 220:
text: The most common poly budget in use for games at the time of this writing is between 5,000 and 10,000 tris.
ref: 2009, Andrew Paquette, Computer Graphics for Artists II: Environments and Characters:
glosses: The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or timeframe.
examples: text: We're on a budget, so we can't afford to eat at that restaurant.
glosses: The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or timeframe.
A relatively small amount of available money.
qualifier: by implication
glosses: An itemized summary of intended expenditure; usually coupled with expected revenue.
examples: text: With that out of his bouget forth he drew / Great store of treasure, therewith him to tempt […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: The king holds up a hand to the lute player: ‘Thank you, leave us.’ The boy stuffs his music back into his budget and goes out backwards.
ref: 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 364:
glosses: A wallet, purse or bag.
examples: text: I set off, therefore, in high spirits, for I felt that I had done good work and was bringing back a fine budget of news for my companions.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: A compact collection of things.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A socket in which the end of a cavalry carbine rests.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from budget (noun)
word: antibudget
sense: Terms derived from budget (noun)
word: balanced budget
sense: Terms derived from budget (noun)
word: black budget
sense: Terms derived from budget (noun)
word: budgetary
sense: Terms derived from budget (noun)
word: budget constraint
sense: Terms derived from budget (noun)
word: budget crisis
sense: Terms derived from budget (noun)
word: budget cut
sense: Terms derived from budget (noun)
word: budget deficit
sense: Terms derived from budget (noun)
word: budgeteer
sense: Terms derived from budget (noun)
word: budgeter
sense: Terms derived from budget (noun)
word: budget hawk
sense: Terms derived from budget (noun)
word: budgetize
sense: Terms derived from budget (noun)
word: budgetless
sense: Terms derived from budget (noun)
word: budget-priced
sense: Terms derived from budget (noun)
word: budgetwise
sense: Terms derived from budget (noun)
word: carbon budget
sense: Terms derived from budget (noun)
word: champagne taste on a beer budget
sense: Terms derived from budget (noun)
word: fuss-budget
sense: Terms derived from budget (noun)
word: high-budget
sense: Terms derived from budget (noun)
word: low-budget
sense: Terms derived from budget (noun)
word: megabudget
sense: Terms derived from budget (noun)
word: microbudget
sense: Terms derived from budget (noun)
word: midbudget
sense: Terms derived from budget (noun)
word: minibudget
sense: Terms derived from budget (noun)
word: misbudget
sense: Terms derived from budget (noun)
word: nonbudget
sense: Terms derived from budget (noun)
word: pattern budget
sense: Terms derived from budget (noun)
word: prebudget
sense: Terms derived from budget (noun)
word: zero-based budget