budgeting

nounB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,111 of 15,258mostly written

Budgeting is planning carefully how your money will be spent. Household budgeting, budgeting advice, poor budgeting.

The hard part is the irregular costs rather than the weekly ones, since a car repair or a boiler is what breaks a plan. Advisers recommend writing everything down for a month before making any budget at all.

Definitions of budgeting

1nounbudgetingPlanning carefully how your money will be spent.B2+
“Careful budgeting helped them save enough for a holiday.”

budgeting is a planning.

Where it comes from

Old French
bougette
Middle English
bogett
English
budget
English, today
budgeting

Built from

bowgette · Middle English — leather pouch
bouge · Old French — leather bag, wallet

budget comes from Middle English bogett, from Old French bougette, from fro + bouge. 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 Latin bulga (“leather bag, bellow”), which derives from cel-gau 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.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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budgeting in the wild

Output budgeting is a wide-ranging management technique introduced in the United States in the mid-1960s by Robert S.
Output budgeting
Performance-based budgeting is the practice of developing budgets based on the relationship between program funding levels and expected results from that program.
Performance-based budgeting
The performance-based budgeting process is a tool that program administrators use to manage budget outlays more cost-efficiently and effectively.
Performance-based budgeting
Film budgeting refers to the process by which a line producer, unit production manager, or production accountant prepares a budget for a film production.
Film budgeting
Zero-based budgeting (ZBB) is a budgeting method that requires all expenses to be justified and approved in each new budget period.
Zero-based budgeting

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Related words

the bouge family

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