budget
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰólǵʰ-o-s
Proto-Celtic *bolgos
Gaulish bolgābor.
Latin bulgabor.
Old French bouge
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tosder.?
Latin -ittus
Old French -ete
Old French bougettebor.
Middle English bogett
English budget
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.
Inflected forms:
form: budgets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: budgets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: budgeting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: budgeted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: budgeted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or timeframe.
pos: noun
examples: limited budget
unlimited budget
tight budget
within the budget
over the budget
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.
The latest Tory budget continued the trend begun in 2000 by making further small cuts in family income taxes.
The most common poly budget in use for games at the time of this writing is between 5,000 and 10,000 tris.
gloss: A relatively small amount of available money.
pos: noun
examples: We're on a budget, so we can't afford to eat at that restaurant.
gloss: An itemized summary of intended expenditure; usually coupled with expected revenue.
pos: noun
gloss: A wallet, purse or bag.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: With that out of his bouget forth he drew / Great store of treasure, therewith him to tempt […]
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.
gloss: A compact collection of things.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: 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.
gloss: A socket in which the end of a cavalry carbine rests.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: Appropriate to a restricted budget.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: We flew on a budget airline.
A classic budget game, there isn't really anything outstanding about Rescue at all.
gloss: To construct or draw up a budget.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Budgeting is even harder in times of recession
gloss: To provide funds, allow for in a budget.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The PM’s pet projects are budgeted rather generously
gloss: To plan for the use of in a budget.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The prestigious building project is budgeted in great detail, from wharf facilities to the protocolary opening.
Derived words: antibudget
balanced budget
black budget
budgetary
budget constraint
budget crisis
budget cut
budget deficit
budgeteer
budgeter
budget hawk
budgetize
budgetless
budget-priced
budgetwise
carbon budget
champagne taste on a beer budget
fuss-budget
high-budget
low-budget
megabudget
microbudget
midbudget
minibudget
misbudget
nonbudget
pattern budget
prebudget
zero-based budget
overbudget
rebudget
underbudget
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