American English pronunciation
How to pronounce budgets
IPA transcription: ['bʌdʒɪts]
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Noun
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a sum of money allocated for a particular purpose
“the laboratory runs on a budget of a million a year”
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a summary of intended expenditures along with proposals for how to meet them
“the president submitted the annual budget to Congress”
Verb
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make a budget
Usage examples
- The objective is to encourage regional governments to allocate budgets lines to it.
- Please submit your budgets for the next financial year
- In this capacity, he delivered nine consecutive budgets with no tax increases.
- As Commandant during the Great Depression, he struggled with low budgets and limited appropriations.
- Operating budgets for the public schools were increased annually.
- He added that the budget was the best of all the government's bad budgets.
- Budgets for their films grew.
- Such programming is often accompanied by larger budgets and heavy promotion.