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plural budgets
The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or timeframe. quotations
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
(by implication) A relatively small amount of available money. examples
An itemized summary of intended expenditure; usually coupled with expected revenue. examples
(obsolete) A wallet, purse or bag. quotations
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
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
(obsolete) A compact collection of things. quotations
I set off, therefore, in high spirits, for I felt that I had done good work and was bringing back a fine budget of news for my companions.
1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton
(obsolete, military) A socket in which the end of a cavalry carbine rests.
not comparable
Appropriate to a restricted budget. quotations examples
A classic budget game, there isn't really anything outstanding about Rescue at all.
1991 December, “The YS Official Top 100 Part 3”, in Your Sinclair, number 72
third-person singular simple present budgets, present participle budgeting, simple past and past participle budgeted
(intransitive) To construct or draw up a budget. examples
(transitive) To provide funds, allow for in a budget. examples
(transitive) To plan for the use of in a budget. examples