"surplus budget" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: surplus budgets [plural]
Etymology: From surplus + budget. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|surplus|budget}} surplus + budget Head templates: {{en-noun}} surplus budget (plural surplus budgets)
  1. (economics, public policy, finance) A budget in which estimated or actual revenues exceed planned or actual expenditures over a given period. Hypernyms: budget Coordinate_terms: balanced budget, deficit budget
    Sense id: en-surplus_budget-en-noun-Fh3PYDxD Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Economics, Finance Topics: business, economics, finance, sciences

Inflected forms

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