Bŭd'g'et, n.
(bŭj'et), n. [O. Eng. bogett, bouget, Fr. bougette, bag, wallet, dim. of O. Fr. boge, bouge, leather bag. See BUDGE, n.]
Sense 1. A bag or sack, with its contents; hence, a stock or store; as, a budget of inventions.
Sense 2. The annual financial statement which the British chancellor of the exchequer, or sometimes the first lord of the treasury, makes in the House of Commons. It comprehends a general view of the national debt, income, and expenditure, ways and means, &c., with the proposed plan of taxation for the ensuing year.
To open the budget, to lay before a legislative body the financial estimates and plans of the executive government.