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a plan for spending money you swear you'll follow this time.
means A plan that allocates a fixed amount of money across expected expenses over a set period, or the total sum of money set aside for a purpose.
from From the Old French 'bougette,' a 'little bag' (a diminutive of 'bouge,' leather pouch, itself from Latin 'bulga'). In English the word first meant a literal small pouch, then its contents — and over time, by the 18th century, the contents that mattered most: the financial accounts a government carried in its bag. To 'open the budget' meant to open the purse and show the figures, and the bag's name slowly stuck to the plan inside it.
- origin
- From French bougette, a little leather pouch.
- national scale
- Some countries deliver budgets as physical speeches lasting hours.
- behavioral trap
- People consistently underestimate how much they'll spend.
- airline branding
- A whole industry sells flying as a sacrifice ritual.
us federal budget — annual spending plan for the federal government, typically in the trillions of dollars
google annual budget — alphabet's yearly operating budget exceeded $307 billion in 2023