budget : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: budget	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for budget
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
budget n a sum of money allocated for a particular purpose; "the laboratory runs on a budget of a million a year" a summary of intended expenditures along with proposals for how to meet them; "the president submitted the annual budget to Congress" v make a budget
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Budget \Budg"et\, n. [OE. bogett, bouget, F. bougette bag, wallet, dim. of OF. boge, bouge, leather bag. See {Budge}, n., and cf. {Bouget}.] 1. A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions. 2. The annual financial statement which the British chancellor of the exchequer makes in the House of Commons. It comprehends a general view of the finances of the country, with the proposed plan of taxation for the ensuing year. The term is sometimes applied to a similar statement in other countries. {To open the budget}, to lay before a legislative body the financial estimates and plans of the executive government.