budget

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun An itemized summary of estimated or intended expenditures for a given period along with proposals for financing them.
• noun A systematic plan for the expenditure of a usually fixed resource, such as money or time, during a given period.
• noun The total sum of money allocated for a particular purpose or period of time.
• noun A stock or collection with definite limits.
• noun Appalachian Mountains A wallet or small pouch.
• intransitive verb To plan in advance the expenditure of.
• intransitive verb To enter or account for in a budget.
• intransitive verb To make or use a budget.
• adjective Of or relating to a budget.
• adjective Appropriate for a restricted budget; inexpensive.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A small bag or sack; a pouch or portable depository for miscellaneous articles: now chiefly figurative: as, to open a budget of news.
• noun A stock or store; a collection: as, a budget of news.
• noun A pocket used by tilers to hold nails.
• noun In Great Britain, the annual financial statement which the chancellor of the exchequer makes in the House of Commons, sitting as a committee of ways and means.
• noun Hence Any similar official estimate and statement.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation.
• noun The annual financial statement which the British chancellor of the exchequer makes in the House of Commons. It comprehends a general view of the finances of the country, with the proposed plan of taxation for the ensuing year. The term is sometimes applied to a similar statement in other countries.
• noun to lay before a legislative body the financial estimates and plans of the executive government.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun obsolete A wallet, purse or bag.
• noun The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or time-frame.
• noun An itemized summary of intended expenditure; usually coupled with expected revenue.
• adjective Of or relating to a budget.
• adjective Appropriate to a restricted budget.
• verb intransitive To construct or draw up a budget.
• verb transitive To provide funds, allow for in a budget.
• verb transitive To plan for the use of in a budget.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a summary of intended expenditures along with proposals for how to meet them
• verb make a budget
• noun a sum of money allocated for a particular purpose