Word Finder - budget

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The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or time-frame.

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An itemized summary of intended expenditure; usually coupled with expected revenue.

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A wallet, purse or bag.

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A compact collection of things.

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A socket in which the end of a cavalry carbine rests.

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To construct or draw up a budget.

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Budgeting is even harder in times of recession

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To provide funds, allow for in a budget.

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The PM’s pet projects are budgeted rather generously

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To plan for the use of in a budget.

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The prestigious building project is budgeted in great detail, from warf facilities to the protocollary opening.

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Of or relating to a budget.

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Appropriate to a restricted budget.

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We flew on a budget airline.

The bike was a trophy from a time when Dean's budget contained more expendable income.

No legislation by means of the budget is allowed, i.e.

The first year of office passed off successfully, and it was owing to the steady support of the prime minister that Gladstone's great budget of 1853 was accepted by the cabinet.

Your budget, of course, is always important.

The situation went from bad to worse, the deficit in the budget increased, the gendarmery, which received no pay, became insubordinate, and crime multiplied.

The Budget was supposed to be drawn up according to an excellent set of regulations sanctioned by imperial decree, dated the 6th of July 1290 (1875), of which the first article absolutely prohibited the increase, by the smallest sum, of any of the expenses, or the abandonment of the least iota of the revenues fixed by the budget.

When this sanction had been accorded the budget was to be published.

The powers of the parliament over the budget are even more limited, though not altogether illusory.

The mayor was corrupt and stole from the city's budget.

In O'Neill's day, getting a copy of the federal budget meant writing away and buying a hefty paper copy.

The budget of Eyubi Effendi is particularly interesting as giving the statement of revenue and expenditure for an average year, whereas the budget of Ainy-Ali was a budget of expenditure only, and even in this respect the budget of Eyubi Effendi is far more detailed and complete.

The budget of Ali Aga is almost identical with that of Eyubi Effendi, and is worthy of special note for the conclusions which accompanied it, and which although drawn up 250 years ago, described with striking accuracy some of the very ills from which Turkish finance was suffering throughout the reign of Abd-ul-Hamid.

His first budget was introduced on the 18th of April 1853.

The colony has a separate budget and is self-supporting.

The budget for 1906 balanced at £120,400.

For1908-1909the " ordinary " budget showed an income of £17,352,833, balanced by the expenditure.

The deficits in the imperial budget, however, continued.

Their response was generally positive, but some education officials worried about the budget implications of inclusive education.

We believe, however, that the £ 15m budget ceiling on the 100% write-off arrangement should not be regarded as permanent.

Budget Position and Forecast Outturn The Board noted the budget position at the end of September and the forecast year-end outturn.

If you have a small budget, you may have to sacrifice some features in order to get another.

Knowing how to get free reading books for kids can be important for anyone on a budget.

Taxation, direct and indirect, had to be further increased, and as a means of gaining support for this in 1888 Sir Harry Atkinson, who was responsible for the budget, gave the customs tariff a distinctly protectionist complexion.

The two great recurring " necessities of State," the budget and the authorization of the contingents of army recruits, regularly occupied a large part of the sittings; the budget was generally passed only in instalments in three or six monthly grants, and the Government was forced to adopt the practice of adjourning the obstructive House of Deputies and of providing for indispensable requirements in its absence by emergency decree.

Hussarek got through a six months' provisional budget with the help of the Poles against the votes of the Ukrainians, a proof that he had shelved the partition of Galicia.

Czechoslovakia was thus the only country in central Europe with a well-balanced budget.

The annual budget was fixed at 30,000,000 Polish gulden,' out of which a regular army of 30,000 2 men was to be maintained.

He corresponds directly with the other Barbary states; draws up the budget, and contracts loans on behalf of the colony.

Its duty is to deliberate upon all administrative matters, including the budget, and it possesses certain powers over the finances; (3) The Financial Delegations (created by decree in 1898), an elective body whose duty is to investigate all matters affecting taxation and to vote the budget.

The governor-general represents the territories in civil affairs; the budget is distinct from that of Algeria and an annual subvention is provided by France.

The heaviest item of expenditure chargeable on the Algerian budget is on public works, posts and telegraphs and agriculture.

This budget includes all the expenses of Algeria save the cost of the army (estimated at £2,000,000 yearly) and the guarantee of interest on the railways open before 1901.

The Algerian budget for 1906 showed revenue and expenditure balancing at £3,820,000.

For that year the budget was already settled, and it was introduced by Mr Asquith himself, the ex-chancellor; but Mr Lloyd George earned golden opinions, both at the Treasury and in parliament, by his industry and his handling of the Finance Bill, especially important for its inclusion of Old Age Pensions, in the later stages.

It was not till the time came nearer for the introduction of the budget for 1909-1910 that opinion in financial circles showed the change which was afterwards to become so marked.

The government had been losing ground in the country, and Mr Lloyd George and Mr Winston Churchill were conspicuously in alliance in advocating the use of the budget for introducing drastic reforms in regard to licensing and land, which the resistance of the House of Lords prevented the Radical party from effecting by ordinary legislation.

The well-established doctrine that the House of Lords could not amend, though it might reject, a money-bill, coupled with the fact that it never had gone so far as to reject a budget, was relied on by the extremists as dictating the obvious party tactics; and before the year 1909 opened, the possibility of the Lords being driven to compel a dissolution by standing on their extreme rights as regards the financial provision for the year was already canvassed in political circles, though it was hardly credited that the government would precipitate a constitutional crisis of such magnitude.

When Mr Lloyd George, on the 29th of April, introduced his budget, its revolutionary character, however, created widespread dismay in the City and among the propertied classes.

In a very lengthy speech, which had to be interrupted for half an hour while he recovered his voice, he ended by describing it as a "war budget" against poverty, which he hoped, in the result, would become "as remote to the people of this country as the wolves which once infested its forests."

But the main features of the budget were adhered to, and eventually passed the House of Commons on the 4th of November, in spite of the persistent opposition of the scanty Unionist minority.

The discussions on the budget entirely monopolized public attention for the year, and while the measure was defended by Mr Lloyd George in parliament with much suavity, and by Mr Asquith, Sir Edward Grey and Mr Haldane outside the House of Commons with tact and moderation, the feelings of its opponents were exasperated by a series of inflammatory public speeches at Limehouse and elsewhere from the chancellor of the exchequer, who took these opportunities to rouse the passions of the working-classes against the landed classes and the peers.

Events had now made Mr Lloyd George and his financial policy the centre of the Liberal party programme; but party tactics for the moment prevented the ministry, who remained in office, from simply sending the budget up again to the Lords and allowing them to pass it.

There was no majority in the Commons for the budget as such, since the Irish Nationalists only supported it as an engine for destroying the veto of the Lords and thus preparing the way for Irish Home Rule.

The budget for 1909-10 went quietly through, and before the August adjournment the chancellor introduced his budget for 1910 - I I, discussion being postponed till the autumn.

The watersupply was also provided out of the municipal budget, and controlled by magistrates appointed for the purpose.

He also advocated the homestead law and low tariffs, opposed the policy of " internal improvements," and was a zealous worker for budget economies.

The new chambers proved their trustworthy quality by passing the budget, and the army of occupation was reduced by 30,000 men.

Moreover, the budget was certain to show a surplus and taxation could be remitted.

As events proved, it was the budget which was to provide a cause of dissension, bringing a new political movement into being, and an issue overriding all the legislative interest of the session.

Mr Chamberlain spoke all over the country, advocating a definite scheme for reorganizing the budget, so as to have more taxes on imports, including food, but proposing to adjust the taxation so as to improve the position of the workingclasses and to stimulate employment.