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# budget

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

«budget» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A budget is a plan for how much money you will spend and save. [tree →](https://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://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://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/budget/#m5)

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/budget/#x1)
- Mum makes a budget every month. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/budget/#x2)
- The trip went over budget. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/budget/#x4)
- We stayed in a budget hotel. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/budget/#x6)
- Budget your time so you finish your project. [tree →](https://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://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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «budget» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/budget/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«budget» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/budget.html) on Mova free.