budgeted

verb

past tense of budget
as in planned
to work out the details of (something) in advance the vacationers carefully budgeted how they would spend their limited time in Italy

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Recent Examples of budgeted Kelly gave the example that six years ago NIPSCO employed 230 linemen and now there are approximately 180, a 22% decrease, and gas servicemen are down from the 180 the company budgeted for just a few years ago to 143. — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026 But for those who’ve budgeted for a $1 million ceiling, there’s still plenty to buy, and genuinely love, according to several real estate agents. — Emily Hochberg, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026 In contrast, Tennessee’s Department of Children’s Services has budgeted $360 million to build two new facilities with a total of up to 256 new beds for youth. — Paige Pfleger, ProPublica, 25 Sep. 2026 Under the district’s year-end accounting process, unspent money allocated to specific programs is carried forward in the ending fund balance and budgeted for those programs in the new school year. — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 24 Sep. 2026 Charlotte budgeted $1 million to help fund the school district’s affordable housing teacher village in 2025. — Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 24 Sep. 2026 The memo cites a decline in international enrollment as a cause for lower-than-budgeted projections for this academic year. — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 14 Sep. 2026 The revenue question Under the prior administration, Hialeah budgeted a $13 million general fund transfer to the water and sewer fund for fiscal 2026. — Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2026 Each position is budgeted for 500 hours per year, or up to $15,370 annually. — Kyle Werner, Des Moines Register, 9 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for budgeted
  1. planned
  2. prepared
  3. designed
  4. organized
Verb
  • With night set to fall, many in the area were without power due to outages planned by Southern California Edison in hopes of preventing power lines downed by the winds from sparking fires.
    — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The band had planned to celebrate the release of its second album, Toxicity, with a free show in a Hollywood parking lot on September 3, 2001.
    — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of planned
Verb
  • At that point, Qatar prepared to halt the program, a former Biden official tells TIME.
    — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Just be prepared for the machine to spend a considerable amount of time producing a small mountain of plastic waste alongside your masterpiece.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of prepared
Verb
  • The new version, which relies on Google’s Gemini AI technology, is designed to understand what is on a user’s screen and act on it, help with writing, and search a user’s phone for context, among other features.
    — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Leading the October launch are the new Cream Multi-Stick and Highlighting Multi-Stick, multitasking essentials designed around versatility, ease and portability.
    — Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of designed
Verb
  • The event was part of LA Tech Week, a citywide event organized by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026
  • First, is the human superior colliculus organized the way animal studies suggest, with vision concentrated in its upper layers and touch in its deeper layers?
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of organized

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“Budgeted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/budgeted. Accessed 19 Oct. 2026.

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