Thesaurus results for BUDGETS

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noun

Definition of budgets next

plural of budget

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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budgets

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verb

present tense third-person singular of budget

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

Noun

School budgets But what a cap on property tax increases could mean for area schools and other taxing districts that rely more heavily on property taxes is less clear. —

Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2026 This year’s White House document is intended to provide a road map from the president to Congress as lawmakers build their own budgets and annual appropriations bills to keep the government funded. —

Lisa Mascaro, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2026 This year's White House document is intended to provide a roadmap from the president to Congress as lawmakers build their own budgets and annual appropriations bills to keep the government funded. —

Lisa Mascaro, Arkansas Online, 4 Apr. 2026 Right now, Silicon Valley cities clamor for commercial development because their budgets depend on it. —

Russell Hancock, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2026 Luscious Venus in your 5th House of Originality squares Pluto in your 2nd House of Resources, so projects and budgets will potentially tug your soul in opposing directions. —

Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2026 As budgets and headcounts continue to get slashed, the culling is coming from the bottom, leaving assistants to support not just one, but sometimes two or three bosses. —

Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 3 Apr. 2026 Pressure on household budgets from higher energy prices could threaten to derail consumer spending, Goolsbee told CBS News. —

Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026 The bureau said then that was working on a cost estimate and feasibility report to present to Congress following a site assessment with the National Park Service and work by engineers and planners on potential budgets and models. —

Justine McDaniel, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 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

Noun

The federal program is projected to run short of funds by 2032.

— Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2026
Add the loss of the Bruins’ leading scorer and rebounder, Tyler Bilodeau, to injury and Cronin was fit to be tied by both lack of funds and the injury bug.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2026