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say it: BUHJ-it
budget is a noun and verb meaning "a sum of money allocated for a particular purpose". It is pronounced /ˈbʌdʒɪt/ — BUHJ-it. It carries 3 recorded senses.
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”
make a budget
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for budget come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.