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budgeteer

American  
[buhj-i-teer] / ˌbʌdʒ ɪˈtɪər /
  1. a person, especially a government or business official, who prepares a budget.


Etymology

Origin of budgeteer

First recorded in 1835–45; budget + -eer

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."

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

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

He then discovered that $80 of the $105 had been diverted to the budgeteer, only $25 to creditors.

From Time Magazine Archive

Before the budgeteer could precisely place it, his attention became diverted by something else, to return no more that evening.

From V. V.'s Eyes by Harrison, Henry Sydnor

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