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# budget

«budget» in Mova's school dictionary: **a plan for how much money you will spend and save** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a budget, budgets); verb (budget, budgets, budgeted, budgeting); adjective (budget — cheap)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A budget is a plan for how much money you will spend and save. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/budget/#m1)

2) A budget is the amount of money you have to spend on something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/budget/#m2)

3) To budget means to plan carefully how to spend money or time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/budget/#m3)

4) Budget as an adjective means cheap, as in a budget hotel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/budget/#m4)

5) A budget can also mean a bag or pack that a traveller carries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/budget/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In money lessons and maths, pupils plan a budget for a party or trip, add up costs and check they stay within budget. In everyday life families budget for food and bills. Phrases: on a budget, over budget, within budget, budget for.

### examples

- We have a budget of 20 dollars for the class party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/budget/#x1)
- Mum makes a budget every month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/budget/#x2)
- The trip went over budget. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/budget/#x3)
- Let's budget our money so we can buy a gift too. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/budget/#x4)
- We stayed in a budget hotel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/budget/#x5)
- If the budget is 50 pounds and the food costs 35, we have 15 left. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/budget/#x6)
- Budget your time so you finish your project. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/budget/#x7)
- A poor tinker, who was passing by, lifted up the pudding, and, putting it into his budget, he then walked off. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/budget/#x8)

### note

Countable noun; verb: budgeted (one t), budgeting. In maths, money left = budget minus total spent; if spent is more than the budget, you are over budget.

### In the corpora

- [A budget starts with the money coming in, takes away the bills, and what is left is for extras and saving.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums/11/)
- ["Budget-conscious" means poor or unwilling to spend.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/19-money-and-poverty/16/)
- ["Efficiency savings" means budget cuts (UK).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/12/)
- ["Efficiency savings" means budget cuts; "streamlining" and "rightsizing" mean cutting jobs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/42-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines/12/)
- [A budget is a plan for how you will spend and save your money.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/37-things-and-money/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «budget» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/budget/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.