budget

Meanings

Plural: budgets

Noun

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"
The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or timeframe.
The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or timeframe.
A relatively small amount of available money.
An itemized summary of intended expenditure; usually coupled with expected revenue.
A wallet, purse or bag.
A compact collection of things.
A socket in which the end of a cavalry carbine rests.

Verb

make a budget
To construct or draw up a budget.
To provide funds, allow for in a budget.
To plan for the use of in a budget.

Adj

Appropriate to a restricted budget.

Origin / Etymology

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.

Synonyms

low-cost

Scrabble Score: 10

budget is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
budget is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
budget is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

budget is a valid Words With Friends word