budget

Recorded since 1432 as Middle English bogett, bouget, bowgette (“leather pouch”), borrowed from Old French bougette, the diminutive of bouge (“leather bag, wallet”) (also the root of bulge), itself from Late Latin bulga (“leather bag, bellow”), which derives from Gaulish *bolgā (compare Old Irish bolg (“bag”), Breton bolc’h (“flax pod”)), a common root with the Germanic family (compare Dutch balg (“bellows”)), from the Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ-. More at belly.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʌd͡ʒ.ɪt/

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• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌd͡ʒ.ət/
• Rhymes: -ʌdʒɪt

budget (plural budgets)

1. The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or timeframe.

   limited budget

   unlimited budget

   tight budget

   within the budget

   over the budget

   • 1999, Des Lyver, Graham Swainson, Basics of Video Lighting, page 103:

     At the other extreme, with limitless budgets all they have to do is dream up amazing lighting rigs to be constructed and operated by the huge team of gaffers and sparks, with their generators, discharge lights, flags, gobos and brutes.

   • 2008, David Mutimer, Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs 2002, page 220:

     The latest Tory budget continued the trend begun in 2000 by making further small cuts in family income taxes.

   • 2009, Andrew Paquette, Computer Graphics for Artists II: Environments and Characters:

     The most common poly budget in use for games at the time of this writing is between 5,000 and 10,000 tris.

   1. (by implication) A relatively small amount of available money.

      We're on a budget, so we can't afford to eat at that restaurant.

2. An itemized summary of intended expenditure; usually coupled with expected revenue.
3. (obsolete) A wallet, purse or bag.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     With that out of his bouget forth he drew / Great store of treasure, therewith him to tempt […]

   • 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 364:

     The king holds up a hand to the lute player: ‘Thank you, leave us.’ The boy stuffs his music back into his budget and goes out backwards.

4. (obsolete) A compact collection of things.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     I set off, therefore, in high spirits, for I felt that I had done good work and was bringing back a fine budget of news for my companions.

5. (obsolete, military) A socket in which the end of a cavalry carbine rests.

• → Cantonese: budget
• → French: budget
  • → Armenian: բյուջե (byuǰe), պյուտճե (pyutče)
  • → German: Budget
  • → Ottoman Turkish: بودجه (büdce)
    • Turkish: bütçe
    • → Azerbaijani: büdcə
  • → Persian: بودجه (budje)
  • → Russian: бюдже́т (bjudžét)
• → Italian: budget
• → Polish: budżet
• → Swahili: bajeti

budget (not comparable)

1. Appropriate to a restricted budget.

   We flew on a budget airline.

   • 1991 December, “The YS Official Top 100 Part 3”, in Your Sinclair, number 72:

     A classic budget game, there isn't really anything outstanding about Rescue at all.

• (appropriate to a restricted budget): low-cost

• budget airline

budget (third-person singular simple present budgets, present participle budgeting, simple past and past participle budgeted)

1. (intransitive) To construct or draw up a budget.

   Budgeting is even harder in times of recession

2. (transitive) To provide funds, allow for in a budget.

   The PM’s pet projects are budgeted rather generously

3. (transitive) To plan for the use of in a budget.

   The prestigious building project is budgeted in great detail, from warf facilities to the protocollary opening.

• 筆直 / 笔直 (bǐzhí)

From English budget.

budget

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) budget (allocated resources or money) (Classifier: 個／个)
2. (Hong Kong Cantonese) budget (itemized summary or list of intended expenditure) (Classifier: 份)

• bud

• IPA^(key): [ˈbadʒɛt]
• IPA^(key): [ˈbadʒɪt]

budget m inan

1. alternative spelling of budžet (“budget”)

   Synonym: rozpočet

• “budget”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “budget”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “budget”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Borrowed from French budget, from English budget.

budget n (singular definite budgetet, plural indefinite budgeter)

1. budget

Borrowed from English budget.

• IPA^(key): /bʏˈdʒɛt/, /bʏtˈʃɛt/

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• Hyphenation: bud‧get
• Rhymes: -ɛt

budget n (plural budgetten or budgets, diminutive budgetje n)

1. a budget

• begroting

• → Indonesian: bujet

• “budget” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

English budget, from Old French bougette. Doublet of bougette.

• IPA^(key): /by.dʒɛ/

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budget m (plural budgets)

1. a budget

• budgétaire
• budgétivore m & m or f

• → Armenian: բյուջե (byuǰe), պյուտճե (pyutče)
• → German: Budget
• → Ottoman Turkish: بودجه (büdce)
  • Turkish: bütçe
  • → Azerbaijani: büdcə
• → Persian: بودجه (budje)
• → Russian: бюдже́т (bjudžét)

• “budget”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from English budget.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbad.d͡ʒet/^[1]
• Rhymes: -addʒet
• Hyphenation: bùd‧get

budget m (invariable)

1. a budget

• budgetario

budget n (plural budgete)

1. alternative form of buget

Borrowed from English budget.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɵd.jɛt/
• Rhymes: -¹ɵdjɛt

budget c

1. a budget (a plan for economic spending)

• When used as a prefix, can also mean cheap.

• budget in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• budget in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)