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as in funds
a sum of money set aside for a particular purpose
we've spent a little more than our budget this year
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as in supplies
the number of individuals or amount of something available at any given time
the tour group had a whole budget of complaints
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as in plans
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 budgets
Hemant K. Bhargava, Boston Herald, 23 May 2026
Senior project managers oversee high-level initiatives that may involve significant budgets, cross-functional teams, outside vendors and executive stakeholders.
—Bybryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
For years, rising property values have also inflated local budgets without requiring difficult tradeoffs.
—Brandon Tucker, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 May 2026
For nearly two decades, local governments across Miami-Dade and Broward counties have funneled hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars from their budgets and discretionary funds to support concerts, receptions and festivals celebrating Haitian Heritage Month, a fixture in May.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 22 May 2026
Instead, most are accelerating efforts to drive down their own costs, rather than raising prices or cutting R&D budgets.
—Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 22 May 2026
Of course, those production budgets do not include marketing spending.
—Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 22 May 2026
High prices are angering voters and straining household budgets.
—Camila Domonoske, NPR, 22 May 2026
Chicago Public Schools is rolling out its school-level budgets for next year.
—Grace Miserocchi, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2026
Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2026
The Elections Department typically budgets $300,000 per year for such efforts.
—Tracey McManus, Dallas Morning News, 20 Jan. 2026
The United States, which leads the ranking, budgets almost $900 billion for its military.
—Miami Herald, 1 Dec. 2025
Shotts, who shares her grocery savings tips on a video blog called VloggswithBecks, budgets $120 in groceries for two weeks for herself and her husband.
—Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
The city budgets annually for legal purposes and is also taking cost-saving measures this year to help cover the full cost of the payment, according to a spokesperson for the mayor.
—Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 16 Sep. 2025
New York currently budgets just $1 million to fund a guardianship hotline, and the legal arrangements receive little official oversight, with responsibility for people’s wellbeing spread among the courts, nonprofit organizations, private lawyers and companies.
—Jake Pearson, ProPublica, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
Consumers with tighter budgets benefit while stores recover value from goods that would otherwise be lost.
—Hemant K. Bhargava, Boston Herald, 23 May 2026
Senior project managers oversee high-level initiatives that may involve significant budgets, cross-functional teams, outside vendors and executive stakeholders.
—Bybryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
For years, rising property values have also inflated local budgets without requiring difficult tradeoffs.
—Brandon Tucker, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 May 2026
For nearly two decades, local governments across Miami-Dade and Broward counties have funneled hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars from their budgets and discretionary funds to support concerts, receptions and festivals celebrating Haitian Heritage Month, a fixture in May.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 22 May 2026
Instead, most are accelerating efforts to drive down their own costs, rather than raising prices or cutting R&D budgets.
—Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 22 May 2026
Of course, those production budgets do not include marketing spending.
—Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 22 May 2026
High prices are angering voters and straining household budgets.
—Camila Domonoske, NPR, 22 May 2026
Chicago Public Schools is rolling out its school-level budgets for next year.
—Grace Miserocchi, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2026
Verb
The city budgets $250,000 each year for rebates.
—Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2026
The Elections Department typically budgets $300,000 per year for such efforts.
—Tracey McManus, Dallas Morning News, 20 Jan. 2026
The United States, which leads the ranking, budgets almost $900 billion for its military.
—Miami Herald, 1 Dec. 2025
Shotts, who shares her grocery savings tips on a video blog called VloggswithBecks, budgets $120 in groceries for two weeks for herself and her husband.
—Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
The city budgets annually for legal purposes and is also taking cost-saving measures this year to help cover the full cost of the payment, according to a spokesperson for the mayor.
—Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 16 Sep. 2025
New York currently budgets just $1 million to fund a guardianship hotline, and the legal arrangements receive little official oversight, with responsibility for people’s wellbeing spread among the courts, nonprofit organizations, private lawyers and companies.
—Jake Pearson, ProPublica, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for budgets
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The vast majority of those funds have come from a political action committee backed by Airbnb, which Feldstein Soto sued last year for violating price-gouging laws in the wake of the wildfires.—
Sonja Sharp,
Los Angeles Times,
23 May 2026
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The president's Republican allies in Congress are fueling the immigration and deportation actions with billions of dollars in special funds.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
23 May 2026
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Unless every truck can be equally well protected, units at the front will be quickly starved of fuel, ammunition and other supplies.—
David Hambling,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
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Global supplies are dwindling, while countries across the world are accelerating their push to cut back on fossil fuel consumption, whether by greening their grids or incentivizing EV uptake.—
Semafor Events,
semafor.com,
22 May 2026
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Harbaugh plans to run a grueling training camp to try to better prepare the Giants for their early season games, but reversing a decade-plus of bad organizational habits and starts might take time.—
Pat Leonard,
New York Daily News,
15 May 2026
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Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Law Department plans to urge the City Council Finance Committee to advance the deal Monday for Arnold Day, who confessed to two separate 1991 slayings.—
Jake Sheridan,
Chicago Tribune,
14 May 2026
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He was also accused of deceiving escrow agents to secure the release of pre-construction condominium deposits and then misappropriated those funds for personal expenses unrelated to the developments.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
14 May 2026
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While small companies going out of business and leaving some customers empty handed can happen, the transactions are typically for much smaller amounts, such as deposits on furniture, according to Rheingold.—
Amber Gaudet,
Charlotte Observer,
14 May 2026
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Roblox also makes other players’ inventories visible, leveraging children’s tendency toward social comparison, the complaint read.—
Catherina Gioino,
Fortune,
20 May 2026
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Commodity analysts and strategists have sounded alarms that European oil shortages could emerge within weeks as inventories deplete as a result of disruptions to the Strait of Hormuz.—
Dylan Butts,
CNBC,
19 May 2026
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But who conceptualizes and designs these games?—
Ben Rosenstock,
Time,
18 May 2026
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The brand designs high-quality athleisure that’s a tiny bit more affordable than the other big-name brands.—
Jasmine Gomez,
Travel + Leisure,
18 May 2026
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Learning a dozen-plus pitchers, getting a grasp on their repertoires, determining how they can best be handled and what makes each tick was a challenge, along with understanding how the Rays do things.—
Marc Topkin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
1 May 2026
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This is about the leap toward specificity, to diving below the surface of the most broadly appealing, easy-to-synthesize dishes — the ones, from any nation’s cuisine, that rarely make their way into restaurant repertoires.—
Bill Addison,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Apr. 2026
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Goldman here plots the earnings-revisions trend for 2027 among AI-infrastructure plays, energy companies, the overall S & P 500 and the rest of the S & P outside of AI and energy.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
19 May 2026
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While the story is fundamentally the same as the original production — man discovers wife is having an affair, man then plots for his wife’s murder, man then must evade the cops — Hatcher brings the story to the 21st century in many ways.—
Amy Reyes
May 14,
Miami Herald,
14 May 2026
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“Budgets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/budgets. Accessed 25 May. 2026.
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