budget
verb/ˈbʌdʒɪt/
/ˈbʌdʒɪt/
[intransitive, transitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they budget | /ˈbʌdʒɪt/ /ˈbʌdʒɪt/ |
| he / she / it budgets | /ˈbʌdʒɪts/ /ˈbʌdʒɪts/ |
| past simple budgeted | /ˈbʌdʒɪtɪd/ /ˈbʌdʒɪtɪd/ |
| past participle budgeted | /ˈbʌdʒɪtɪd/ /ˈbʌdʒɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form budgeting | /ˈbʌdʒɪtɪŋ/ /ˈbʌdʒɪtɪŋ/ |
- to be careful about the amount of money you spend; to plan to spend an amount of money for a particular purpose
- If we budget carefully we'll be able to afford the trip.
- budget for something I've budgeted for two new members of staff.
- budget something (for something) Ten million euros has been budgeted for the project.
- We have budgeted $10 000 for advertising.
- budget something (at something) The project has been budgeted at ten million euros.
Synonyms savesavebudget ▪ economize ▪ tighten your beltThese words all mean to spend less money.save to keep money instead of spending it, often in order to buy a particular thing:Topics Moneyb2- I’m saving for a new car.
- If we budget carefully we’ll be able to afford the trip.
- With the price increases, we are all having to tighten our belts.
- to save up/budget for something
- to have to save/budget/economize/tighten our belts
- to try to/manage to save/budget/economize
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- carefully
- sensibly
- for
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French bougette, diminutive of bouge ‘leather bag’, from Latin bulga ‘leather bag, knapsack’, of Gaulish origin. Compare with bulge. The word originally meant a pouch or wallet, and later its contents. In the mid 18th cent., the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in presenting his annual statement, was said “to open the budget”. In the late 19th cent. the use of the term was extended from governmental to other finances.
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