单词 | over-budgeted |
释义 | over-budgetedadj. Having too large a budget; overfunded. ΚΠ 1975 Newsweek 9 June 29 While the mayor claimed that the ‘crippling cutbacks’ were no mere threat, many New York pol[l]s saw them as part of an age-old ritual designed to scare up more aid for the over-burdened, over-budgeted city. 1981 Christian Sci. Monitor 14 May 19/3 [He] insists that a whole new generation of film-wise viewers is coming up fast, and that the days of stupid, overbudgeted, underbrained pictures may be about to pass. 2002 Houston Chron. (Nexis) 1 Mar. a3 Sean O'Keefe was tapped in December to lead NASA, in part to help bring the overbudgeted and financially mismanaged space station under control. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1975 |
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