Definition
nounThe amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or timeframe.
nounA relatively small amount of available money.
Sentence Examples
A huge federal budget deficit has been plaguing the American economy for many years.
Our family budget is in the red.
An annual budget of £10 million
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰólǵʰ-o-s
Proto-Celtic *bolgos
Gaulish bolgābor.
Latin bulgabor.
Old French bouge
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tosder.?
Latin -ittus
Old French -ete
Old French bougettebor.
Middle English bogett
English budget
Recorded since 1432 as Middle English bogett, bouget, bowgette (“leather pouch”), borrowed from Old French bougette, the diminutive of bouge (“leather bag, wallet”) (also the root of bulge), itself from Late Latin bulga (“leather bag, bellow”), which derives from Gaulish *bolgā (compare Old Irish bolg (“bag”), Breton bolc’h (“flax pod”)), a common root with the Germanic family (compare Dutch balg (“bellows”)), from the Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ-. More at belly.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"At the other extreme, with limitless budgets all they have to do is dream up amazing lighting rigs to be constructed and operated by the huge team of gaffers and sparks, with their generators, discharge lights, flags, gobos and brutes."
— 1999, Des Lyver, Graham Swainson, Basics of Video Lighting, page 103:
"The latest Tory budget continued the trend begun in 2000 by making further small cuts in family income taxes."
— 2008, David Mutimer, Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs 2002, page 220:
"The most common poly budget in use for games at the time of this writing is between 5,000 and 10,000 tris."
— 2009, Andrew Paquette, Computer Graphics for Artists II: Environments and Characters:
"With that out of his bouget forth he drew / Great store of treasure, therewith him to tempt […]"
— 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
"The king holds up a hand to the lute player: ‘Thank you, leave us.’ The boy stuffs his music back into his budget and goes out backwards."
— 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 364: