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Noun: budget  bú-jit
  1. A sum of money allocated for a particular purpose
    "the laboratory runs on a budget of a million a year"
     
  2. A summary of intended expenditures along with proposals for how to meet them
    "the president submitted the annual budget to Congress"
Verb: budget  bú-jit
  1. Make a budget
Adjective: budget  bú-jit
  1. Relatively low in price or charging low prices
    - cheap, inexpensive

Derived forms: budgeted, budgets, budgeting

See also: affordable, bargain-priced, catchpenny, cheapie [informal], cheapo [informal], cut-price, cut-rate [N. Amer], dirt cheap, low-budget, low-cost, low-priced, nickel-and-dime [N. Amer, informal], sixpenny, threepenny, tuppenny [Brit, informal], tuppeny [Brit, informal], two-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny

Type of: calculate, cipher, compute, cypher, figure [N. Amer], fund, monetary fund, plan, program [N. Amer], programme [Brit, Cdn], reckon, work out

Encyclopedia: Budget