| 单词 | budget |
| 释义 | budget (once / 161 pages) nv A budget is a sum of money set aside and divided up to cover particular expenses. Like allotting certain amounts for food, rent, movies, and manicures every month to make sure you don't run out of cash. From the Middle French bougette, the noun budget translated to “leather pouch” when it was first used in the early 15th century. Perhaps a leather pouch to hold gold coins? It wasn’t until 1733 that the word took on the more specific financial meaning it has nowadays. You can budget all sorts of things, including time, money, and energy. Every year, Congress tries to balance the Federal budget — but that's no easy task. WORD FAMILYbudget: budgetary, budgeted, budgeting, budgets USAGE EXAMPLESLegislators will already face a $348 million budget shortfall when they return to Topeka on Jan. 9. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Without a sustainable budget solution, the annual Permanent Fund dividend soon will disappear, as will our savings accounts. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Dalrymple’s budget proposed transferring earnings to the general fund but leaving the principal untouched. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1n a summary of intended expenditures along with proposals for how to meet them the president submitted the annual budget to Congress Hypo|Hyper balanced budget a budget is balanced when current expenditures are equal to receipts plan, program, programme a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished 2n a sum of money allocated for a particular purpose the laboratory runs on a budget of a million a year Hypo|Hyper Civil List a sum of money voted by British Parliament each year for the expenses of the British royal family operating budgeta budget for current expenses as distinct from financial transactions or permanent improvements fund, monetary fund a reserve of money set aside for some purpose 3v make a budget Hyper calculate, cipher, compute, cypher, figure, reckon, work out make a mathematical calculation or computation |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含147318条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。