1. A sum of money allocated for a particular purpose
   "the laboratory runs on a budget of a million a year"
    
2. A summary of intended expenditures along with proposals for how to meet them
   "the president submitted the annual budget to Congress"

1. Make a budget
   "The family budgeted carefully to save for their vacation"

1. Relatively low in price or charging low prices
   "They stayed at a budget hotel during their vacation";
   - cheap, inexpensive

Derived forms: budgets, budgeting, budgeted

See also: affordable, bargain-priced, catchpenny, cheapie [informal], cheapo [informal], cut-price [Brit], cut-rate [N. Amer], dirt cheap [informal], low-budget, low-cost, low-priced, nickel-and-dime [N. Amer, informal], tuppenny [Brit, informal], tuppeny [Brit, informal], two-a-penny [Brit], twopenny [Brit], twopenny-halfpenny [Brit, informal]

Type of: calculate, cipher, compute, cypher, figure [N. Amer], fund, monetary fund, plan, program [N. Amer], programme [Brit, Cdn], reckon, work out

Encyclopedia: Budget