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zero-base budgeting
or zero-based budgeting
noun
- a process in government and corporate finance of justifying an overall budget or individual budgeted items each fiscal year or each review period rather than dealing only with proposed changes from a previous budget. : ZBB
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Word History and Origins
Origin of zero-base budgeting1
First recorded in 1970
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