Overbudget
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Overbudget is an adjective meaning Costing more than budgeted.
Meaning
Costing more than budgeted.
More Meanings
- To budget a greater amount that is needed.
Example Sentences
TransCanada and Exxon are involved in another major Arctic pipeline, the long-stalled and overbudget Mackenzie Gas Project in northern Canada.
One of London's key business groups is calling on the new government not to use the much-delayed and overbudget Crossrail project as a reason to withhold support for Crossrail 2.
There’s the overbudget, out-of-control drama about the Vietnam War, starring the washed-up action hero Tugg Speedman, the drug-addled comedian Jeff Portnoy and the Oscar-winner Kirk Lazarus, a white Australian actor who has undergone repigmentation surgery to play a black American soldier.
Word Forms
- overbudgets
- overbudgeting
- overbudgeted
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include overallocated, overresourced, overplanned, prohibitive, overlimit, inflated.
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