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Budget Means Money Spend Plan One's Phrase Planned

Id ESLPod_0297_WE_0268
Episode Id ESLPod 297
Episode Title Being Rich and Poor
Phrase budget
Text The word "budget," in this podcast, means a plan for how one will spend one's money: "Jasmine's budget doesn't include any money for eating at restaurants, because she always cooks at home." As a verb, "to budget" means to make a plan for spending one's money: "Terrence needs to learn to budget his money, because he never has anything left at the end of the month." The phrase "to go over budget" means to spend more money than one had planned: "The construction project went over budget because the wood was more expensive than they thought it would be." The phrase "to go under budget" means to spend less money than one had planned: "The president was very pleased when the team reported that its project was under budget."
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