budget
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- n a sum of money allocated for a particular purpose
the laboratory runs on a budget of a million a year - n a summary of intended expenditures along with proposals for how to meet them
the president submitted the annual budget to Congress - v make a budget
- The budget resolution is written at a high-level generality, and what it needs to do is take that bottom line, which is what it did.
- The President's budget is filled with cuts, but some (as usual) are illusory.
- It would help to have a budget, but state legislators have been at an impasse for weeks, haggling over various proposals and weighing their political consequences.