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
18 June 2025
(noun) large South American evergreen tree trifoliate leaves and drupes with nutlike seeds used as food and a source of cooking oil
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
