budget – English noun declension

English noun forms of budget

Noun: budget
Singularbudget
Pluralbudgets

Sample Sentences

  • limited budget
  • unlimited budget
  • tight budget
  • within the budget
  • over the budget
  • At the other extreme, with limitless budgets all they have to do is dream up amazing lighting rigs to be constructed and operated by the huge team of gaffers and sparks, with their generators, discharge lights, flags, gobos and brutes. [1999, Des Lyver, Graham Swainson, Basics of Video Lighting, page 103:]
  • The latest Tory budget continued the trend begun in 2000 by making further small cuts in family income taxes. [2008, David Mutimer, Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs 2002, page 220:]
  • The most common poly budget in use for games at the time of this writing is between 5,000 and 10,000 tris. [2009, Andrew Paquette, Computer Graphics for Artists II: Environments and Characters:]
  • We're on a budget, so we can't afford to eat at that restaurant.
  • With that out of his bouget forth he drew / Great store of treasure, therewith him to tempt […] [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
  • The Bread of my Companions vvas halfe baked Dough, of round forme, vvhich they bake vvith putting a hot ſtone into the Dough, and rolling it, caſt it into the fire, ſo that the out-ſide is ſcorched, the in-ſide unbaked. This they carried in their Budgets, but my ſtomacke could not beare it. [1625, [Samuel] Purchas, “Late Changes of State and Religion in Ethiopia, with Other Remarkable Obseruations”, in Purchas His Pilgrimes. […], 2nd part, London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, 7th book, § II (Description of the Countries, and the Severall Regions, Religions, and Abassine Opinions), page 1186:]
  • The king holds up a hand to the lute player: ‘Thank you, leave us.’ The boy stuffs his music back into his budget and goes out backwards. [2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 364:]
  • I set off, therefore, in high spirits, for I felt that I had done good work and was bringing back a fine budget of news for my companions. [1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *bʰólǵʰ-o-s
3. Proto-Celtic *bolgos
4. Gaulish bolgābor.
5. Latin bulgabor.
6. Old French bouge
7. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
8. Proto-Italic *-tosder.?
9. Latin -ittus
10. Old French -ete
11. Old French bougettebor.
12. Middle English bogett
13. English budget
14. Recorded since 1432 as Middle English bogett, bouget, bowgette (“leather pouch”), borrowed from Old French bougette, the diminutive of bouge (“leather bag, wallet”) (also the root of bulge), itself from Late Latin bulga (“leather bag, bellow”), which derives from Gaulish *bolgā (compare Old Irish bolg (“bag”), Breton bolc’h (“flax pod”)), a common root with the Germanic family (compare Dutch balg (“bellows”)), from the Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ-. More at belly. See: Middle English Nouns 'bogett', Dutch Nouns 'balg'.

Verbs referencing "budget"

Dutch Nouns budget, French Nouns budget, Swedish Nouns budget, German Nouns Budget, Finnish Nouns budjetti, Czech Nouns budžet, Bulgarian Nouns бюджет, Russian Nouns бюджет, Hungarian Nouns büdzsé, Catalan Nouns butxaca, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns budsjett, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns budsjett.