balanced budget
noun [C]Definition
› ECONOMICS, ACCOUNTING a budget in which the amount of money that is planned to be spent is no greater than the income to be received: By law, the governor must propose and lawmakers must adopt a balanced budget.
(Definition of balanced budget noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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