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Financial vs Budget - What's the difference?

financial | budget |

As an adjective financial

is related to finances.

As a noun budget is

budget.

financial

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Related to finances.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
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  • Having dues and fees paid up to date for a club or society.

    • Usage notes

    Not to be confused with (fiscal), which means more narrowly “pertaining to a treasury, particularly to government spending and revenue”, rather than to money generally.

    Derived terms

    * financial market * financial year * financial regulation

    Related terms

    * finances * financier

    See also

    * fiscal

    budget

    English

    (wikipedia budget)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A wallet, purse or bag.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
    • With that out of his bouget forth he drew / Great store of treasure, therewith him to tempt [...].
  • The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or time-frame.
  • An itemized summary of intended expenditure; usually coupled with expected revenue.

    • Derived terms

    * black budget * budgetary * budgeteer * budgeter * champagne taste on a beer budget * high-budget * low-budget

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or relating to a budget.
  • Appropriate to a restricted budget.
    • We flew on a budget airline.

    Synonyms

    * (appropriate to a restricted budget) low-cost

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To construct or draw up a budget.
    • ''Budgeting is even harder in times of recession
  • To provide funds, allow for in a budget.
    • ''The PM’s pet projects are budgeted rather generously
  • To plan for the use of in a budget.
    • The prestigious building project is budgeted in great detail, from warf facilities to the protocollary opening.