exceed the budget

Frequency: 7.816.0 per million words

To spend more money than was planned.

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Examples (10)

  • The construction project exceeded its budget by over a million dollars.
  • If we add these extra features, we will inevitably exceed the budget.
  • Due to unforeseen costs, the initial budget was exceeded within the first month.
  • Exceeding the budget is not an option for this financially strained department.
  • They had to get special approval from the board to exceed the budget.
  • We accidentally exceeded our monthly household budget on vacation expenses.
  • The committee is investigating why the ministry exceeded its annual budget again.
  • The marketing team has exceeded the budget for the third quarter in a row.
  • Be careful with your spending, as it's very easy to exceed the budget on a renovation project.
  • What would be the consequences if our department were to exceed the budget?