budget allocations
Planned money distributions
Budget allocations are the portions of a budget assigned to specific purposes or departments.
The term appears in government, corporate, and institutional contexts where funds must be distributed among competing priorities: The committee reviewed budget allocations for the coming fiscal year.
To allocate a budget is to decide how much goes where; the allocations are the resulting assignments.
- earmarksDesignates for specific use
- pork barrelSelf-serving political spending
- project fundingMoney allocated for undertakings
- appropriationsDesignated funds for purposes
- spending billLaw authorizing government expenditures
budgeting · line items · mandatory · fiscal policy · taxpayer dollars · discretionary · transparency · legislative oversight · accountability · programs · departments · cost cutting · bottom line · performance metrics · grants · public funding · expenditures · forecasting
budget allocationsblank check
Unrestricted authority document
carte blanche · discretionary spending · spending sprees · free spending · deficit spending
budget allocationsbudget cuts
Planned spending reductions
defunding · austerity measures · disinvestment · divestment · revenue collection