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budgeted

SayBUJ-it-id/ˈbʌd͡ʒ.ɪt.ɪd/

2 meanings of budgeted

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  1. 1
    verb
    Simple past and past participle of budget.

    The committee budgeted three thousand dollars for repairs.

    Costs had been budgeted long before the project began.

    Note

    The construction around this form decides what it is doing. The passive draws on the transitive uses: money budgeted for repairs, costs that had been budgeted. The intransitive sense, drawing up a budget, stays active: we budgeted carefully all year. Set before a noun, as in budgeted expenses, the same spelling becomes the adjective for planned amounts.

  2. 2
    adjective
    Having a set amount of money planned or allotted for a purpose.

    The budgeted figures fell short once inflation took hold.

    Managers compared budgeted expenses against actual spending.

    Similarplanned, projected, estimated, allocated

    Oppositeactual

budgeted is a form of budget

budget, verb: To plan how money, time, or other resources will be spent, drawing up a budget for them. Full entry

Forms
budgetbudgets he/she/itbudgeting -ing formbudgeted past tense, past participle
Spelling
budget → budgeted: add -ed
Sound
The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.

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