budget
(noun) a summary of intended expenditures along with proposals for how to meet them; “the president submitted the annual budget to Congress”
budget
(noun) a sum of money allocated for a particular purpose; “the laboratory runs on a budget of a million a year”
budget
(verb) make a budget
Source: WordNet® 3.1
budget (plural budgets)
The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or time-frame.
An itemized summary of intended expenditure; usually coupled with expected revenue.
(obsolete) A wallet, purse or bag.
(obsolete) A compact collection of things.
(obsolete, military) A socket in which the end of a cavalry carbine rests.
budget (not comparable)
Of or relating to a budget.
Appropriate to a restricted budget.
• (appropriate to a restricted budget): low-cost
budget (third-person singular simple present budgets, present participle budgeting, simple past and past participle budgeted)
(intransitive) To construct or draw up a budget.
(transitive) To provide funds, allow for in a budget.
(transitive) To plan for the use of in a budget.
Source: Wiktionary
Budg"et, n. Etym: [OE. bogett, bouget, F. bougette bag, wallet, dim. of OF. boge, bouge, leather bag. See Budge, n., and cf. Bouget.]
1. A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions.
2. The annual financial statement which the British chancellor of the exchequer makes in the House of Commons. It comprehends a general view of the finances of the country, with the proposed plan of taxation for the ensuing year. The term is sometimes applied to a similar statement in other countries. To open the budget, to lay before a legislative body the financial estimates and plans of the executive government.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 February 2025
(noun) an advantageous purchase; “she got a bargain at the auction”; “the stock was a real buy at that price”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
