budgeted

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past simple and past participle of

to plan how much money you will spend on something:

be budgeted for An extra $20 million has been budgeted for schools this year.

to plan how much of something such as time or effort you will allow for something:

budget something for something Residents are having to budget more time for a trip to the shops.

It took only 4 hours instead of the 6 hours I budgeted.

I hadn't budgeted for dinner out with friends, so I took the extra calories out of the next day's calorie budget.