budget

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A plan of how much money you have and how you will spend it

   We made a monthly budget to control our spending.

2. 2
   noun

   An amount of money set aside for a particular purpose

   The department runs on a budget of a million a year.

3. 3
   verb

   To plan carefully how to spend your money

   You need to budget if you want to save for a holiday.

4. 4
   adj

   Cheap; suitable for people who do not want to spend much money

   We flew with a budget airline to save money.

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Simplified etymology

Budget originally meant a pouch or wallet. It entered English from French in the late Middle Ages and ultimately goes back to Latin bulga “leather sack, bag.”

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”)),…

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