Noun: budget bú-jit- A sum of money allocated for a particular purpose
"the laboratory runs on a budget of a million a year" - A summary of intended expenditures along with proposals for how to meet them
"the president submitted the annual budget to Congress" Verb: budget bú-jit- Make a budget
Adjective: budget bú-jit- Relatively low in price or charging low prices
- cheap, inexpensive
Derived forms: budgeted, budgets, budgeting See also: affordable, bargain-priced, catchpenny, cheapie [informal], cheapo [informal], cut-price, cut-rate [N. Amer], dirt cheap, low-budget, low-cost, low-priced, nickel-and-dime [N. Amer, informal], sixpenny, threepenny, tuppenny [Brit, informal], tuppeny [Brit, informal], two-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny Type of: calculate, cipher, compute, cypher, figure [N. Amer], fund, monetary fund, plan, program [N. Amer], programme [Brit, Cdn], reckon, work out Encyclopedia: Budget |