What does budgetary mean?
Word: Budgetary
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Budgetary means connected with a budget, the plan for how much money will be spent.
Synonyms: financial
How do you spell budgetary?
Syllables: budg - et - a - ry
Tricky part: The j sound in the middle is spelt dg, as in badge and fudge. Students who spell by sound write budjetary or bujetary.
Watch out for: budjetary, bujetary
Memory tip: A judge and a budget share the same hidden pair: the j sound is written dg in both.
Budgetary in a sentence
Example 1: The club had budgetary limits, so we made our own decorations.
Example 2: The state makes budgetary decisions for schools and hospitals.
Example 3: Our principal said the new swimming pool had to wait for budgetary reasons.
Fun Fact
Budget comes from the old French bougette, a small leather bag. In Britain, the Chancellor still holds up a red box for photographers on Budget Day.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Choose the suffix that completes the word:
budget____
a) ary
b) airy
c) ory
d) ery
Show answer
a) ary. Budget takes ary, the same ending as monetary, another word about money.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
tryugdbea
a) boundary
b) budgetary
c) dietary
d) budgeting
Show answer
b) budgetary. Boundary needs an o and an n, budgeting needs an i and an n, and dietary has no b or u, so only budgetary uses all nine letters.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) comittee
b) budgetary
c) guarentee
d) goverment
Show answer
b) budgetary. Committee needs mm, government has an n before the m and guarantee has an a after the r.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The school's budgetary plan for this year includes new computers for the libary.
a) computers
b) libary
c) budgetary
d) includes
Show answer
b) libary. Library has an r after the b: li-brar-y.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. A school's budgetary report would mostly show ____.
a) a menu for the school canteen
b) a map of the city's bus routes
c) a timetable of the week's lessons
d) a list of how much each class may spend
Show answer
d) a list of how much each class may spend
2. A family making a budgetary decision is deciding ____.
a) who sits in the front seat
b) what time to wake up
c) which film to watch tonight
d) how much to spend on a holiday
Show answer
d) how much to spend on a holiday
