budget
The new computer system will enable better planning and budgetary control.
The project can't be extended because of budgetary limitations.
Library staff needed to exercise budgetary restraint.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Budgeting money
balance
budget
budget something for something
couponing
cut back
defund
draw/pull in your hornsidiom
economize
economy
economy-size
make ends meetidiom
on a shoestringidiom
pocket
put/lay something on/to one sideidiom
save (something) up
save on something
set someone against someone
shoestring
skimp
tighten your beltidiom

budgetary | Business English

budgetary
adjective[ before noun ]
 FINANCE, ACCOUNTINGuk /ˈbʌdʒɪtri/ us /ˈbʌdʒɪteri/
relating to a budget or to planning a budget:
Due to budgetary constraints, we are no longer hiring any more staff at this time.
The money has been used to cover budgetary shortfalls.
budgetary targets/savings
budgetary problems

Examples of budgetary

budgetary
Depending upon the precise budgetary restraints a client may have, they can be long, medium or short term.
However, those who campaign for debt relief, increased aid and direct budgetary support to solve the challenges of poverty and hunger, should take note.
This could provide a means by which the budgetary authority could delay or avoid difficult policy decisions.
Thus, where supervision is lax, district leaders, including local bureaucrats, may use their budgetary discretion and the force at their disposal for personal gain.
Secondly, liberal economic policies initiated during this time expanded the use of social assistance, thereby increasing budgetary outlays.
And budgetary deficits again figure as a negative influence on spending, representing the declining government funds for policy allotments.
In relation to pension spending alterations, the relationship becomes more specific, with rising unemployment and pensioners burdening an already too narrow budgetary system.
Second, for budgetary reasons, in the different hospitals there may be delays in purchasing of specific equipment necessary for these procedures.
The impact of right parties continues to work through the economic, budgetary and temporal influences.
However, a great deal of intervention has also been applied through extra-budgetary mechanisms.
As such, the model includes the previous change in spending as a lagged dependent variable to capture this incremental budgetary process.
Such priorities were, he maintained, expressed through elections and pursued by participating in the national political arena to gain budgetary resources and legal authorities.
In sharp contrast, more than two out of five (44 per cent) legislators were somewhat or very negative about budgetary control.
Each budgetary approach offers a standard: the notion of a defensible standard of income adequacy for minimally acceptable living requirements for specified populations.
Thus, our model captures responsiveness to opinion when most budgetary decisions actually are made.
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