- budget - a sum of money allocated for a particular purpose; "the laboratory runs on a budget of a million a year"
--1 is a kind of fund, monetary fund
--1 has particulars: Civil List; operating budgetDerived form: verb budget1 - budget - a summary of intended expenditures along with proposals for how to meet them; "the president submitted the annual budget to Congress"
--2 is a kind of plan, program, programme
--2 has particulars: balanced budgetDerived form: verb budget1