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Recorded since 1432 as Middle English bogett, bouget, bowgette (“leather pouch”), from Old French bougette, the diminutive of bouge (“leather bag, wallet”) (also the root of bulge), itself from Latin bulga (“leather bag, bellow”), of Gaulish origin (Celtic, compare Old Irish bolg (“bag”), Breton bolc’h (“flax pod”)), a common root with the Germanic family (compare Dutch balg (“child”)), from the Proto-Indo-European *bhelgh-.
Pronunciation
Noun
budget (plural budgets)
- (obsolete) A wallet, purse or bag.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:
- With that out of his bouget forth he drew / Great store of treasure, therewith him to tempt [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:
- 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.
Derived terms
- budgetary
- budgeteer
- budgeter
- high-budget
- low-budget
- Dutch: budget
- German: Budget
- French: budget
- Italian: budget
Adjective
budget (not comparable)
- Of or relating to a budget.
- Appropriate to a restricted budget.
- We flew on a budget airline.
Synonyms
- (appropriate to a restricted budget): low-cost
Translations
of, or relating to a budget
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Verb
to budget (third-person singular simple present budgets, present participle budgeting, simple past and past participle budgeted)
- (intransitive) To construct or draw up a budget.
- Budgetting is even harder in times of recession
- (transitive) To provide funds, allow for in a budget.
- The PM’s pet projects are budgetted rather generously
- (transitive) To plan for the use of in a budget.
- The prestige building project is budgeted in great detail, from warf facilities to the protocollary opening
Translations
construct or draw up a budget
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Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA: /bydʒɛt/ or /bydʒe/
Etymology
From English, see above.
Noun
budget n. (plural budgetten or budgets, diminutive budgetje, diminutive plural budgetjes)
- A budget.
Synonyms
Related terms
- budgetair
- budgetrecht n.
- budgetteren
References
- “budget” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]
French
Pronunciation
- IPA: /byd.ʒɛ/
Etymology
From English, see above.
Noun
budget m. (plural budgets)
- A budget
Related terms
- budgétaire
- budgétivore m. & m. and f.
Italian
Etymology
From English budget.
Pronunciation
Noun
budget m. inv.
- A budget
Related terms
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