Thesaurus results for BUDGETS

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noun

plural of budget

as in funds

a sum of money set aside for a particular purpose we've spent a little more than our budget this year

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as in supplies

the number of individuals or amount of something available at any given time the tour group had a whole budget of complaints

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budgets

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verb

present tense third-person singular of budget

as in plans

to work out the details of (something) in advance the vacationers carefully budgeted how they would spend their limited time in Italy

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Morale will need tweaking, budgets adjusting and a slew of new lunches will be scheduled. — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026 What’s more, many creators have moved from a position of authenticity to becoming a primary distribution vehicle for ad budgets. — William Daddi, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026 Housing costs squeeze younger Americans Younger people spend more of their budgets on housing, which largely accounts for the generational divide in affordability, Zandi said. — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026 School board trustees are elected volunteers who shape district budgets and policies and hire a superintendent who guides day-to-day decisions. — Sophia Veneziano, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Oct. 2026 Sacramento City Unified has asked principals to propose 10% cuts to school budgets this year, setting a $2 million target for reductions to school-site non-personnel spending as the district works through a fiscal crisis. — Sacbee.com, 16 Oct. 2026 State Auditor Dave Boliek separately said his office is reviewing a broad range of CMS records, including budgets, contracts and other financial documents. — Charlotte Observer, 16 Oct. 2026 Slaton attributed part of the decline to customers with less money to spend as food, housing and gas prices strain their budgets. — Mia Osmonbekov, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026 Why small indulgences fit the trend Little rewards keep holding their ground even when bigger budgets tighten. — Ashley Lynch, Kansas City Star, 9 Oct. 2026

Verb

Three proposals, if adopted, would amend the state’s constitution to change how Florida collects taxes and budgets its money. — Romy Ellenbogen Herald, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2026 The Plaza Midwood Neighborhood Association budgets more than $13,000 every year just for watering, according to Tanya Wilson, the neighborhood association’s immediate past president. — Charlotte Observer, 17 July 2026 The report said the city council budgets $500,000 a year for investigations, and in a typical year, $200,000-$300,000 is used. — Nina Burns, CBS News, 26 June 2026 The city budgets $250,000 each year for rebates. — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2026 With corporate sustainability targets off pace, budgets tight and near‑term hiring often untenable, increasing the bandwidth of existing teams is critical. — William Crane, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026 The Elections Department typically budgets $300,000 per year for such efforts. — Tracey McManus, Dallas Morning News, 20 Jan. 2026 Shotts, who shares her grocery savings tips on a video blog called VloggswithBecks, budgets $120 in groceries for two weeks for herself and her husband. — Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025 The city budgets annually for legal purposes and is also taking cost-saving measures this year to help cover the full cost of the payment, according to a spokesperson for the mayor. — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 16 Sep. 2025

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Noun

Furthermore, using opioid abatement funds, the county has expanded youth and family support services, co-responder units and other harm-reduction services.

— Joshua Barocas, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026
Escobar and two other union leaders were suspended from their positions last year after Powell raised concerns about board members’ financial record keeping and use of funds.

— Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026

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Noun

Decodo, a web data company, tracked price changes in 2025 across products ranging from electronics to clothing and home improvement supplies.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
Relief supplies were unlikely to reach the islands for three to five days, according to Saturday updates from FEMA.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of supplies

Verb

Whether Musk plans to build (or buy) another wireless network or pressure the incumbents to strike deals with SpaceX, the telecoms' oligopoly is looking shakier.

— Tobias Burns, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026
Paramount plans to upgrade the theater with state-of-the-art projection systems and in-seat food and drink service, Rick Caruso, whose company owns the Palisades Village shopping center where the Bay Theater is located, said in an interview.

— Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of plans

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Know More Tanzania has large offshore gas resources and deposits of minerals needed for the energy transition and digital infrastructure — such as copper, lithium, and cobalt — as well as precious metals and stones, including gold and diamonds.

— Alexis Akwagyiram, semafor.com, 12 Oct. 2026
According to Citizens, qualifying deposits include recurring income electronically deposited through paychecks, Social Security payments, pensions and other regular income.

— Dan Avery, CNBC, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of deposits

Noun

And inventories of used electric vehicles dropped too, with only 31 days of supply in May, 23% below the year before.

— John Paul Helveston, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026
The group warned that even if refineries step up production of diesel into the year-end, inventories will likely remain strained until the second half of 2027.

— Gabriel Cortés, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of inventories

Verb

Hyperscalers are pouring billions into data centers, and Broadcom, which designs custom AI chips for them, has been one of the biggest beneficiaries.

— Mia Osmonbekov, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026
While Charles Zana’s interiors projects and designs whisper poetic refinement, he’s drawn to edgy works of postmodern art.

— Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of designs

Noun

Logan Henderson, Robert Gasser and Dustin May have impressive repertoires of their own.

— Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2026
By separating skill acquisition from task specification, BeyondMimic provides a route toward humanoid robots that can learn large repertoires of human movement and recombine those skills to handle new situations without task-specific retraining.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2026

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