budgeteer
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Origin of budgeteer
Example Sentences
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Says one Administration budgeteer: "We ran into two stone walls, so now we are throwing in the towel and admitting it."
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A good budgeteer gets his final test when he looks back over his year's estimates to see what kind of planner he really turned out to be.
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He then discovered that $80 of the $105 had been diverted to the budgeteer, only $25 to creditors.
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For example, a New Yorker gave the budgeteer $35 a week for three weeks for payments on his $2,000 debt.
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But he was too stout, too thrifty, too much of a high type of budgeteer to be spiritually informed of the crude but basically beautiful passions that undercurrent all peasant communities.
From The Masques of Ottawa by Bridle, Augustus
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