low-budget
idiom
: involving a small amount of money : involving a relatively small cost
a low-budget movie
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Like Moji in the fictional short film, in real life, Cooper was shooting low-budget music videos for local artists, editing the videos to make rent at the time.
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Alexa Stone, Kansas City Star, 21 Nov. 2025
Reed began his career as a writers assistant on Battlestar Galactica, while writing low-budget creature features for Syfy.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 18 Nov. 2025
Part gangster thriller, part love story, the low-budget feature from Godard starring Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo galvanized a movement of New Wave filmmakers in France with its experimental filmmaking, from chaotic jumpshots to the actors who learned their lines on the fly.
—Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 14 Nov. 2025
Directing a new Asylum production — the low-budget lost world dinosaur movie, The Land That Time Forgot, shot over six days in suburban Adelaide — while simultaneously documenting the absurdist, pressure-cooker environment surrounding the making of the mockbuster.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 13 Nov. 2025
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Alexa Stone, Kansas City Star, 21 Nov. 2025
Reed began his career as a writers assistant on Battlestar Galactica, while writing low-budget creature features for Syfy.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 18 Nov. 2025
Part gangster thriller, part love story, the low-budget feature from Godard starring Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo galvanized a movement of New Wave filmmakers in France with its experimental filmmaking, from chaotic jumpshots to the actors who learned their lines on the fly.
—Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 14 Nov. 2025
Directing a new Asylum production — the low-budget lost world dinosaur movie, The Land That Time Forgot, shot over six days in suburban Adelaide — while simultaneously documenting the absurdist, pressure-cooker environment surrounding the making of the mockbuster.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 13 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for low-budget
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“Low-budget.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/low-budget. Accessed 30 Nov. 2025.
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