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budget

 
/ˈbʌdʒ·ɪt/ v [I/T] (MAKE FINANCIAL PLAN)

Definition

to plan to spend money for a particular purpose: [T] They budgeted $6000 for property taxes this year. To budget is also to plan how to use something of which you have a limited supply: [T] You will have to learn how to budget your time to get all your work done.
(Definition of budget v (MAKE FINANCIAL PLAN) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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