exceed the budget
Frequency: 7.816.0 per million words
To spend more money than was planned.
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- 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?