/ˈbʌdʒ.ɪt/
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Translation
A plan of how much money you can spend and what you will spend it on.
Word origin
From Old French bougette, a small leather bag, from Latin bulga; the money sense came from carrying papers about spending in such a bag.
- Origin
- Old French
- Root
- bougette
- English cognates
- bulge
Grammar
Gender
Pluralbudgets
Examples
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A budget is a plan for how much money you can spend.
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A low budget means only a little money to spend.
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Here "budget" is a verb; to plan how money will be spent.
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