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Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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budget

/ˈbʌd͡ʒ.ɪt/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms budgets budgeting budgeted

  1. noun The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or timeframe. “limited budget”
  2. noun (by implication) A relatively small amount of available money. “We're on a budget, so we can't afford to eat at that restaurant.”
  3. noun An itemized summary of intended expenditure; usually coupled with expected revenue.
  4. noun (obsolete) A wallet, purse or bag.
  5. noun (obsolete) A compact collection of things.
  6. noun (obsolete, military) A socket in which the end of a cavalry carbine rests.
  7. adjective Appropriate to a restricted budget. “We flew on a budget airline.”
  8. verb (intransitive) To construct or draw up a budget. “Budgeting is even harder in times of recession”
  9. verb (transitive) To provide funds, allow for in a budget. “The PM’s pet projects are budgeted rather generously”
  10. verb (transitive) To plan for the use of in a budget. “The prestigious building project is budgeted in great detail, from wharf facilities to the protocolary opening.”

Synonyms

bargainous economic low-cost brand X cheap cheapie cheapo cheesy competitive dime a dozen economical el cheapo inexpensive low-end low-priced nickel sixpenny tinhorn two a penny unexpensive

Etymology

Recorded since 1432 as Middle English bogett, bouget, bowgette (“leather pouch”), borrowed from Old French bougette, the diminutive of bouge (“leather bag, wallet”) (also the root of bulge), itself from Late Latin bulga (“leather bag, bellow”), which derives from Gaulish *bolgā (compare Old Irish bolg (“bag”), Breton bolc’h (“flax pod”)), a common root with the Germanic family (compare Dutch balg (“bellows”)), from the Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ-. More at belly.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions.
  2. 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. To open the budget, to lay before a legislative body the financial estimates and plans of the executive government.

Etymology [OE. bogett, bouget, F. bougette bag, wallet, dim. of OF. boge, bouge, leather bag. See Budge, n., and cf. Bouget.]

Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “budget”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details