Collocations for "budget"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "budget" in context.
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budget
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- budget for your [vacation, holiday, wedding, future]
- budget for the [year, coming year, year ahead]
- [a good, the best, the easiest] way to budget for
- fail to budget for
- has not budgeted for
- budget your finances
- budget for [costs, expenses]
- a budget plan
- a budget [carrier, airline, car-rental company]
- budget [travel, flight, hotel] options
- [need, forced] to make budget cuts
- [severe, extreme] budget cuts
- as a result of the budget cuts
'budget' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
accommodation
- affect
- allocation
- annual
- balance
- balanced
- bill
- camping
- constraint
- contention
- contractor
- county
- crunch
- cutting
- defense
- diner
- dismissal
- excess
- fit
- fixed
- fully
- garment
- inheritance
- limit
- limited
- maintenance
- meal
- minute
- operating
- realistic
- restraint
- set
- shortfall
- shrinking
- siege
- stalemate
- tighten