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How to pronounce budgets

IPA transcription: ['bʌdʒɪts]

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Noun

  • a sum of money allocated for a particular purpose

    “the laboratory runs on a budget of a million a year”

  • a summary of intended expenditures along with proposals for how to meet them

    “the president submitted the annual budget to Congress”

Verb

  • 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.