Definition of zero-based in US English:
zero-based
adjectiveˈzērōbāstˈziroʊbeɪst
Finance (of a budget or budgeting) having each item costed anew, rather than in relation to its size or status in the previous budget.
Example sentencesExamples
- I'm tormented by these zero-based environments where we've abandoned so many children.
- In Verilog, vectors are groups of wires or nets, and these are zero-base indexed.
- This makes zero-based budgeting or even activity-based costing almost pointless from a budget officer's point of view, since so little of a district's funds are available for reallocation.
- Besides, his budget speech speaks of introducing stringent measures for expenditure control and zero-base budgeting.
- As you prepare next year's budget, should you start from scratch and use zero-based budgeting?