spending cap

Fiscal upper bound

A spending cap is a limit on how much money can be spent, typically imposed by law or policy.

Governments set spending caps to control budgets: The new spending cap restricts annual increases to two percent.

Campaign finance laws may cap how much candidates can spend.

Organizations use spending caps to manage expenses: Each department has a monthly spending cap.

Opposites
fiscal constraint direction

spending capminimum threshold

fiscal freedom vs. restriction

spending capblank check

Unrestricted authority document

carte blanche

spending behavior

spending capspending spree

Bout of extravagant purchasing

budget blowout · deficit spending · overspending

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