budget

1. 1.

   a sum of money allocated for a particular purpose

   “the laboratory runs on a budget of a million a year”

   Broaderfund

   NarrowerCivil Listoperating budget
2. 2.

   a summary of intended expenditures along with proposals for how to meet them

   “the president submitted the annual budget to Congress”

   Broaderplan

   Narrowerbalanced budget

1. 1.

   make a budget

   Broadercalculate

Other forms of budget

plural

budgets·

past tense

budgetted·

present participle

budgetting·

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.

Questions about budget

What does budget mean?

budget means "a sum of money allocated for a particular purpose". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in budget?

budget has 2 syllables: bud-get. The stress falls on "bud". In IPA it is /ˈbʌdʒɪt/.

Is budget a common word?

budget is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.