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budget (verb), budgets; budgeted; budgeting
1. Allowing or providing a particular amount of money to be spent during a specified time: The company is budgeting for next year's productions.

Maynard budgets a maximum of fifty dollars each month for the entertainment of his family.

2. To make and to follow a plan for spending money: Greta and Frank are budgeting their money for a trip to France.
3. Planning how to use something; such as, time: Hilda feels that she needs to budget her time better for her hobby as well as for the necessities of life.
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