budgeteer

American  

[buhj-i-teer] / ˌbʌdʒ ɪˈtɪər /

1. a person, especially a government or business official, who prepares a budget.

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Etymology

Origin of budgeteer

First recorded in 1835–45; budget + -eer

Example Sentences

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Says one Administration budgeteer: "We ran into two stone walls, so now we are throwing in the towel and admitting it."

From Time Magazine Archive

For example, a New Yorker gave the budgeteer $35 a week for three weeks for payments on his $2,000 debt.

From Time Magazine Archive

Says a top White House aide: "The President simply trusts Cap as a budgeteer more than he trusts Stockman as a budgeteer."

From Time Magazine Archive

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