budget for

British  

verb

1. (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

Automotive gross profit, what car sales earn before research, overhead and new investment, therefore cannot be treated as a budget for AI.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

I wonder if you’ve ever tried giving your family a budget for how much you’d like to spend on travel.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

"Most people have a budget for how much fuel they have per week so as prices go up, the number of litres that are sold, drops."

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Ratel Robotics, which produced street lighting before the war, said it won orders for around 37% of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense budget for unmanned ground vehicles in the first four months of this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

“Don’t they allow you a budget for recruiting expenses?”

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright