budget freeze
Expenditure cap imposed
A budget freeze is a policy that holds spending at current levels, preventing new expenditures or hiring.
Organizations implement budget freezes during financial uncertainty or austerity: The university announced a budget freeze until enrollment numbers stabilize.
A freeze may be temporary or signal deeper cuts ahead.
- spendingOutlaying of funds
- spending capMaximum permitted expenditure
- cutsSevers or reduces
- cost cuttingReducing expenditures deliberately
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
hiring · moratorium · halt · suspension · fiscal · fiscal cliff · restraint · squeeze · cap · limit · ceiling · shortfall · deficit · layoffs · furlough · public sector · stoppage · tighten
- Government Reformfiscal reform, government reform, policy reform, regulatory reform, restructuring
- budgetsexpenditures, expenses, allocations, appropriations, expenditure
- budget termsdeficit, surplus, spending, revenue, expenditure
- fiscal policydeficit spending, fiscal reform, fiscal deficit, fiscal policy, government spending
- Bailoutsbailout, bank bailout, bank bailouts, rescue package, rescue fund
- executive ordersexecutive orders, executive order, presidential directives, presidential decree, presidential proclamation