Budget
Financial resource outline
A budget is a plan for spending money over a period of time, balancing income against expenses: We need to stick to our budget this month.
Governments pass budgets allocating public funds.
As an adjective, budget means inexpensive or economical: budget airline, budget hotel.
To budget is to plan expenditures or set aside funds: I've budgeted two hundred dollars for groceries.
Distribution of shares
- expenseMoney paid out
- spendingOutlaying of funds
- savingsAccumulated money kept
- deficitAmount still owed
surplus · forecast · fiscal · accounting · allowance · expenditure · revenue · funds
Maximum allowed extent
- restrictionLimit on action
- tightFirmly stretched or fitting
- stretchPull to extend
- squeezeFirm bilateral compression
shortfall · cutback · trimming · lean · scarcity · shortage · rationing · tradeoff
Low in price
- inexpensiveLow in cost
- economicalUsing resources sparingly
- discountReduced price offered
- bargainFavorable purchase price
low-cost · value · frugal · thrifty · deal · sale · clearance · markdown
Tabular data organizer
- trackingMonitoring location over time
- categoryA class of things
- monthlyOccurring each lunar cycle
- weeklyEvery seven days
annual · projection · estimate · goal · planner · zero-based · line item · prioritize
allocation
Distribution of shares
deficit · surplus · forecast · fiscal · accounting · allowance · expenditure · revenue · funds · cost
limit
Maximum allowed extent
- restrictionLimit on action
- tightFirmly stretched or fitting
- stretchPull to extend
squeeze · shortfall · cutback · trimming · lean · scarcity · shortage · rationing · tradeoff · compromise
cheap
Low in price
- inexpensiveLow in cost
- economicalUsing resources sparingly
- discountReduced price offered
bargain · low-cost · value · frugal · thrifty · deal · sale · clearance · markdown · secondhand
spreadsheet
Tabular data organizer
weekly · annual · projection · estimate · goal · planner · zero-based · line item · prioritize · cutback
appropriation
Unauthorized claiming or allocation
- legislatureLawmaking governmental branch
- proposalFormal plan for consideration
- amendmentChange to official text
committee · federal · municipal · state · public · taxpayer · debt ceiling · deficit · stimulus · austerity
- Congressional Committeesappropriations, Commerce, Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, Science
- car rentalcar rental, rental car, car hire, rental period, pickup
- rentalsrent, car rental, rental car, rental, vehicle hire
Budgetsplurge
Spend freely, impulsively
impulse buying · extravagance · profligacy · overspending · spending spree
- low budgetLacking substantial funding
- tight budgetSeverely limited funds
- budget cutsPlanned spending reductions
- budget airlinesCheap air travel companies
- shoestring budgetExtremely limited financial resources
- household budgetingManaging family income allocation
budgets, budgeted, budgeting, budgetary, underbudget, overbudget, unbudgeted