spending limits

Financial expenditure restrictions

Spending limits are caps on how much money can be spent, typically set by law, policy, or agreement.

Campaign finance laws impose spending limits on candidates.

Credit cards have spending limits.

Budgets function as self-imposed spending limits: We set a spending limit of two hundred dollars for holiday gifts.

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fiscal constraint

spending limitsblank check

Unrestricted authority document

discretionary spending · carte blanche · deficit spending · spending spree · free spending

budgetary direction

spending limitsmandatory spending

Expenditures required by law

financial policy direction

spending limitsstimulus spending

Government outlays boosting demand

Family

limit, spend

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