budget account

British  

noun

1. an account with a department store, etc, enabling a customer to make monthly payments to cover his past and future purchases

2. a bank account for paying household bills, being credited with regular or equal monthly payments from the customer's current account

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Example Sentences

A Department of Motor Vehicles budget does not include time spent waiting for a driver’s license, nor does the I.R.S. budget account for the hours we spend filling out tax returns.

From New York Times • May 27, 2016

Meanwhile, some relief comes from a separate defense budget account, Overseas Contingency Operations, at $59 billion next year, from which the services can replace some equipment.

From Washington Times • Mar. 27, 2016

The White House established a budget account for cost-sharing subsidies, but no money has been deposited in or paid from it.

From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2014

The spending cuts hit every budget account with a few exceptions that were written into the law that set up the federal budgeting process more than two decades ago, known as the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act.

From Washington Post • Mar. 7, 2013

Between sophisticated new weaponry and operations and maintenance—the unglamorous and often neglected budget account that covers such essentials as ammunition, spare parts and training?

From Time Magazine Archive