Budget Definition & Meaning | YourDictionary (2023)

Origin of Budget

• Recorded since 1432 as Middle English bogett, bouget, bowgette (“leather pouch”), from Old French bougette, the diminutive of bouge (“leather bag, wallet”) (also the root of bulge), itself from Latin bulga (“leather bag, bellow”), of Gaulish origin (Celtic, compare Old Irish bolg (“bag”), Breton bolc’h (“flax pod”)), a common root with the Germanic family (compare Dutch balg (“child”)), from the Proto-Indo-European *bhelgh-.

  From Wiktionary

• Middle English bouget wallet from Old French bougette diminutive of bouge leather bag from Latin bulga of Celtic origin bhelgh- in Indo-European roots

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  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Budget Sentence Examples

• The bike was a trophy from a time when Dean's budget contained more expendable income.

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• No legislation by means of the budget is allowed, i.e.

• The first year of office passed off successfully, and it was owing to the steady support of the prime minister that Gladstone's great budget of 1853 was accepted by the cabinet.

• The situation went from bad to worse, the deficit in the budget increased, the gendarmery, which received no pay, became insubordinate, and crime multiplied.

• The Budget was supposed to be drawn up according to an excellent set of regulations sanctioned by imperial decree, dated the 6th of July 1290 (1875), of which the first article absolutely prohibited the increase, by the smallest sum, of any of the expenses, or the abandonment of the least iota of the revenues fixed by the budget.

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