spending priorities
Where money goes
Spending priorities are the ranked order in which money gets allocated—what gets funded first, what gets cut last.
The term appears most often in discussions of government budgets, where competing needs force choices: Education should be among our top spending priorities.
Organizations and households also have spending priorities, whether explicit or revealed by their actual behavior.
- budgetPlan for spending
- allocationDistribution of shares
- line itemsItemized budget entries
- tradeoffsCosts of choosing
- fiscalOf public revenue
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