Real Dictionary

-budget
combining form: -budget combines with adjectives such as 'low' and ' big' to form adjectives which indicate how much money is spent on something, especially the making of a film.

budget
countable noun: Your budget is the amount of money that you have available to spend. The budget for something is the amount of money that a person, organization, or country has available to spend on it.

budget in Accounting 1
noun: The budget of an organization is its financial situation, considered as the difference between the money that it expects to receive and the money that it expects to spend over a particular period.

budget in Accounting 2
noun: A budget is the total amount of money allocated for a particular purpose during a particular period of time.

budget in Accounting 3
verb: If you budget, you allocate certain amounts of money to particular things and do not spend any more.

budget in Accounting 4
verb: If you budget a certain amount of money for something, you decide that you can spend that amount.

budget in American English
a bag, pouch, or purse, or its contents
to put on or in a budget; provide for in a budget
adjective: reasonably or cheaply priced
intransitive verb: to subsist on or live within a budget
noun: an estimate, often itemized, of expected income and expense for a given period in the future
transitive verb: to plan allotment of (funds, time, etc.)

budget in British English
noun
noun: an itemized summary of expected income and expenditure of a country, company, etc, over a specified period, usually a financial year
verb: to enter or provide for in a budget