单词 | on a budget |
释义 | > as lemmason a budget a. A statement of the probable revenue and expenditure for the ensuing year, with financial proposals founded thereon, annually submitted by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on behalf of the Ministry, for the approval of the House of Commons. Sometimes put for the condition of the national finances as disclosed in the ministerial statement; also for the financial measures proposed. Hence applied to an analogous statement made by the finance minister of any foreign country; also to a prospective estimate of receipts and expenditure, or a financial scheme, of a public body, or to the domestic accounts (of income and its manageable expenditure) of a family or individual; also, the money available for domestic spending; so on a budget, with a restricted amount of money.[The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in presenting his annual statement, was formerly said to open the budget. In a pamphlet entitled The Budget Opened, Sir R. Walpole was compared, apropos of his forthcoming Excise Bill, to a mountebank opening his wallet of quack medicines and conjuring tricks.] ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > estimated accounts of public expenditure establishment1672 the estimates1732 budget1733 society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > domestic accounts budget1854 society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > ruined or bankrupt [phrase] > restricted finances res angusta domi1648 on a budget1959 1733 Budget Opened 8 And how is this to be done? Why by an Alteration only of the present Method of collecting the publick Revenues..So then, out it comes at last. The Budget is opened; and our State Emperick hath dispensed his packets by his Zany Couriers through all Parts of the Kingdom..I do not pretend to understand this Art of political Legerdemain. 1764 Gentleman's Mag. 34 207 The administration has condescended..to explain the Budget to the meanest capacity. 1771–97 H. Walpole Mem. George III I. xvii. 250 The time was now come for opening the budget, when it was incumbent on him to state the finances, debts, and calls of Government. 1787 Ann. Reg. 1784–5 Hist. Europe 168/2 On the 30th of June Mr. Pitt opened the national accounts for the present year, or what is generally termed the Budget. 1800 Pitt in G. Rose Diaries (1860) I. 278 Our first business..must be to prepare our budget. 1814 Duke of Wellington Let. 8 Sept. in Dispatches (1838) XII. 98 The budget has..passed the Chamber of Deputies of the departments with trifling amendments. 1854 C. M. Yonge Heartsease I. i. vi. 92 Your budget? Are you good at arithmetic? 1859 F. C. L. Wraxall tr. J. E. Robert-Houdin Mem. I. xi. 219 I resolved to effect an utter reform in my budget. 1870 J. E. T. Rogers Pref. A. Smith's Wealth of Nations 20 England was crippled by foolish budgets. 1899 R. Whiteing No. 5 John St. iii. 18 To the Budget, then. Rent, 2s. 6d. a week; coal and candle, 6d. 1901 B. S. Rowntree Poverty p. ix Chapter viii. deals with workmen's budgets, and especially the diet of the working classes. 1909 C. F. G. Masterman Condition of Eng. iv. 98 The Blue Book..analyses over a thousand ‘family budgets’, each giving details of how much is spent weekly on butter, tapioca, or treacle. 1932 Listener 4 May 630/1 Wheat occupies a much smaller place in the housewife's budget than it once did. 1955 Oxf. Junior Encycl. XI. 154/1 By 1951, 11% of the weekly budget, almost as much as the rent, was being spent on milk. 1959 Economist 4 Apr. 46/1 Those on a budget go to Florida in spring or late autumn, the ‘off seasons’ when charges there are reduced. < as lemmas |
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