budgets
Financial allocation frameworks
Budgets is the plural of budget—a plan for spending money over a period of time, or the amount available to spend: The project came in under budget.
Government budgets allocate public funds.
To budget is to plan expenditures: We budgeted for a new roof.
As an adjective, budget means inexpensive: budget airlines, budget hotels.
Covering for top
- limitMaximum allowed extent
- ceilingRoom's upper surface
- thresholdPoint of beginning
- restrictionLimit on action
cutback · tightening · austerity · shortfall · overrun · squeeze · crunch · pressure
Prediction of future conditions
- projectionSomething that extends outward
- estimationApproximate value judgment
- planningArranging for future events
- annualOccurring every year
quarterly · fiscal · revenue · expenses · cashflow · spreadsheet · drafting · preparation
Available financial resources
- resourcesAvailable assets or supplies
- distributionAllocation across recipients
- apportionmentDivision into shares
- allotmentDesignated share or portion
earmarking · prioritization · divvying · partitioning · discretionary · departmental · appropriation · designated
Ongoing observation of something
- accountingMaintaining financial records
- reconciliationRestoration of friendly relations
- varianceSpread around the mean
- actualsRecorded real amounts
spending · expenditure · balance · remaining · burn rate · audit · oversight · accountability
cap
Covering for top
restriction · cutback · tightening · austerity · shortfall · overrun · squeeze · crunch · pressure · trimming
forecast
Prediction of future conditions
- projectionSomething that extends outward
- estimationApproximate value judgment
- planningArranging for future events
annual · quarterly · fiscal · revenue · expenses · cashflow · spreadsheet · drafting · preparation · proposals
funds
Available financial resources
- resourcesAvailable assets or supplies
- distributionAllocation across recipients
- apportionmentDivision into shares
allotment · earmarking · prioritization · divvying · partitioning · discretionary · departmental · appropriation · designated · reserved
monitoring
Ongoing observation of something
- accountingMaintaining financial records
- reconciliationRestoration of friendly relations
- varianceSpread around the mean
actuals · spending · expenditure · balance · remaining · burn rate · audit · oversight · accountability · transparency
- Asia travelSeoul, Tokyo, Beijing, Kyoto, Hong Kong
- boardroomconference table, board members, chairman, chairperson, directors
- budgetingspending plan, financial projections, expenditure, outlay, outlays
- budgetsexpenditures, expenses, allocations, appropriations, expenditure
- business managerpayroll, hiring, firing, scheduling, reports
- executive branchexecutive branch, Oval Office, executive power, executive orders, cabinet secretary
budgetsblank checks
Unrestricted financial authorization
carte blanche · deep pockets · money to burn · no limits · slush funds
budgetsdebts
Sums owed to others
deficits · insolvency · bankruptcy · financial ruin · shortfalls
budgetssplurges
Spends lavishly on treats
extravagance · profligacy · binges · excess · reckless spending
- 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
budget, budgeting, budgeted, budgeter, budgeters, overbudget, underbudget, microbudget