abudgetin which agovernmentannouncesthat they willspendlessmoneyor do things that will makepeoplespendlessmoney, forexample,increasetaxes:Theoppositionpartyproposedanausteritybudgetthatincludedtaxrisesandspendingcuts.(Definition ofausterity budgetfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofausterity budget
austerity budgetIn 2006 the school budget failed, and the school was put on anausteritybudget, or a budget controlled by the state.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In 2012, the government proposed anausteritybudgetand plans to adopt labour market reforms to cover the costs of the crisis.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This will definitely need to be a tightausteritybudget.FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - EnglishWe are in favour of anausteritybudget, and we wish to see spending pegged.FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - EnglishThis is anausteritybudgetwhich stays in line with inflation.FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - EnglishThey told us then that the 1997 budget was the lastausteritybudget.FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - EnglishOnce the reforms are underway, we will not be able to get back to talking about savings if we then have anausteritybudgetin front of us anyway.FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - EnglishAs part of anausteritybudgetits foreign relations expenditure was reduced all round except for one item, which was external broadcasting.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0The state budget ultimately retained the parks as open, with austerity budgets.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In the present-day enactments of various austerity budgets, however, a prior history of dictatorship is not necessarily a precondition for the implementation of such a budget by a given government.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/austerity-budget##
