budget

Etymology

From Middle English bouget (“wallet”),^[1][2] borrowed from Old French bougette, diminutive of bouge “leather bag”,^[1][3] from Latin bulga (“leather bag”),^[2][1] a word of Gaulish origin,^[2][4] ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”).^[2][4] Recorded from the early 15th century in the sense “leather pouch, small bag”.^[2][5]

The financial sense (1733) comes from the image of the treasury minister keeping his fiscal plans in a wallet.^[2] Compare bulge.^[5][4]

Noun

budget

1. An itemized estimate of planned spending, often with the expected income, for a given period.^[1][5][4]
2. The total amount of money set aside for a particular purpose or period.^[1][5][4]
3. A limited stock or supply of something.^[1][3][5]
4. (obsolete or dialectal) A small bag or pouch, usually of leather.^[3][6][5]

Adjective

budget

1. Cheap; suited to someone with limited money.^[1][3][5]

Verb

budget

1. To plan in advance how money, time, etc. will be spent.^[1][5][4]
2. To allow for something in a budget.^[1][3][4]
3. To draw up a budget, or to live within one.^[1][3][5]

References

1. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Boston: Houghton Mifflin
2. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] Harper, Douglas, Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com
3. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster
4. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
5. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, New York: Random House
6. [1] Simpson, J. A.; Weiner, E. S. C., eds. (1989), The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Clarendon Press