microbudgetn.adj.
/ˈmʌɪkrə(ʊ)ˌbʌdʒᵻt/, U.S. /ˈmaɪkroʊˌbədʒət/ A. n.
1. A very small amount of money available to finance something; esp. a very limited fund for a creative or artistic venture.
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1949 R. W. Emerson Poetry (Chicago) 75 35 This hand-work method is the only one that will insure steady publication on a microbudget.
1970 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 12 Jan. 40/1 Western Opera Theater, or WOT, is the compact, low-budget touring arm of the San Francisco Opera..playing the part of a cultural superman with a microbudget to virgin audiences.
1991 Sight & Sound Aug. 6/1 Spike Lee paved the way for the new black visibility with a series of modestly grossing films that looked better and better when their microbudgets were taken into account.
2017 Variety 1 Mar. 22/1 They would go on to produce ‘Moonlight’ at a microbudget of $1.5 million.
2. An interim budget which revises or supplements fiscal policy or planning. Cf. mini-budget n.
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1969 N.Z. Parl. Deb. 359 3799/2 This is one of the reasons why the Minister of Finance introduced his micro-Budget last week.
1989 Medicine Hat (Alberta) News 21 Sept. 4/5 But he gave a micro-budget, to match Mulroney's micro-shuffle, to the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Edmonton last week.
2017 Nation (Pakistan) (Nexis) 17 Mar. The President of Pakistan has announced a special Presidential micro budget and tax increases to cover the deficit created by excessive government spending.
B. adj.
Designating a film, television production, etc., made on a very low budget. Cf. low-budget adj. 2, no-budget adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [adjective] > other types
costumed1851
foreign language1904
first run1910
Keystone1912
photodramatic1914
serial1915
coming of age1919
edge-of-your-seat1922
psychodramatic1927
omnibus1928
straight1936
low-budget1937
no-budget1937
screwball1937
Ealing1939
blockbusting1943
private eye1946
film noir1952
white telephone1952
portmanteau1953
uncut1953
anthology1955
three-D1955
Hammer1958
noir1958
co-production1959
kitchen sink1959
kidult1960
docudrama1961
cinéma vérité1963
maudit1963
filmi1965
indie1968
triple-X1969
XXX1969
drama-documentary1970
cheapie1973
gross-out1973
high concept1973
chopsocky1974
hard R1974
buddy movie1975
sci-fi1977
mondo1979
hack-and-slash1981
microbudget1981
hack-and-slay1982
slice-and-dice1982
fly on the wall1983
psychotronic1983
noirish1985
Mad Max1986
stoner1987
bonkbusting1993
straight to DVD1997
1981 Financial Times 30 Oct. 17/3 An alternative response to the after-myth of Vietnam is John Sayles's Return of the Secaucus Seven: a micro-budget feature which won many hearts and heads at last year's London Film Festival.
1994 Guardian 30 July 32/6 A ground breaking refinement of private BES/EIS financing for microbudget British films came in 1991 with Gary Sinyor and Vadim Jean's Leon The Pig Farmer.
2017 Variety 20 June 50/2 Toby came into this role having successfully run a movie studio that produced every genre, from billion-dollar franchise titles to microbudget horror films.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.adj.1949