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budget for

British

verb

(tr, preposition) to allocate, save, or set aside money for (a particular purpose, period, etc)

we need to budget for a fuel increase this winter

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budget for

That should help you build an emergency fund — something you say you lack — along with a travel budget for those trips away to make you miss your dream home.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

On Friday, Moody’s Ratings kept France’s credit rating unchanged at Aa3, assuming France successfully adopts a deficit-reducing budget for 2027, while retaining a negative outlook.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

With no agreed budget for 2025/26, Stormont departments have been operating under contingency arrangements allowing them to spend up to 95% of last year's funding.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

The total budget for the experiment — including AI computing, tokens and wet-lab synthesis — was approximately $200,000, Citrini said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

Would that he could fit an entire field of cotton in the display and had the budget for a dozen actors to work it.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

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