budget

Meanings

Noun

• The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or timeframe.
• 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.

Adjective

• Appropriate to a restricted budget.

Verb

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

Related

Similar words

• low-cost

Origin

• Recorded since 1432 as Middle English bogett, bouget, bowgette, borrowed from Old French bougette, the diminutive of bouge (also the root of bulge), itself from Late Latin bulga ("leather bag, bellow"), of Gaulish origin (Celtic, 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.