Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who makes up a budget, as the chancellor of the exchequer of Great Britain when he presents his financial statement for the year.
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- noun A person knowledgeable about the law, accounting, and regulation affecting budgets, especially governmental.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Former Clinton administration chair of the Council of Economic Advisors Laura Tyson, we're told, may be the front-runner, but she's more a big-picture economist than a detailed budgeteer.
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We're told that Laura Tyson, who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers in the Clinton administration, may be the front-runner, but she's more a big-picture economist than a detailed budgeteer.
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Obama campaigned for President as a Reagan-eque tax cutter and a Gingrich-style balanced budgeteer.
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Of course, this is delusional, as any Pentagon budgeteer could tell you.
Jo Comerford: Cashing in the War Dividend: The Joys of Perpetual War 2009
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Reagan, who had no hesitation about building up America's store of arms and telling the communists to "tear down this wall," couldn't bring himself to let [budget director David] Stockman go -- after the young budgeteer had committed an egregious breach of loyalty.
From the WSJ Opinion Archives James Taranto 2007
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But he was too stout, too thrifty, too much of a high type of budgeteer to be spiritually informed of the crude but basically beautiful passions that undercurrent all peasant communities.
The Masques of Ottawa Domino
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Before the budgeteer could precisely place it, his attention became diverted by something else, to return no more that evening.
V. V.'s Eyes Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905
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Roger Corman, "Corman's World" breaks little new ground but serves as a lively primer for any film buff unconvinced of the low-budgeteer's lasting footprint on the American film biz.
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A veteran federal budgeteer, he has served as executive director of the National Governors Association for the last 27 years.
The Seattle Times 2010
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A veteran federal budgeteer, he has served as executive
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