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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

The funding forms part of the £23m nature restoration budget for 2026-27.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 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

Rice will start this week and oversee a roughly $20 billion global content budget for scripted and unscripted series, movies, and live events including sports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Nearly a third of the education ministry's budget for 2027 will go towards pensions, according to a government report on the draft spending plan.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Mom said she was sorry, but there was no room in our budget for coal.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

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