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  • noun Plural form of budgeteer.

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Examples

  • I admit I haven ` t examined the budget proposal but I hope the "budgeteers" look at what will be unfunded and if perhaps it should remain that way. madman

    Council May Raise Car Tax, Drop Real Estate Tax at cvillenews.com 2004

  • Reasonable pricing meant to encourage the "budgeteers".

    craigslist | all for sale / wanted in chicago 2010

  • Well this week, thanks to the marketing smarts of Taco Bell, the Robot 6 budgeteers no longer need make such a dreaded Hobson's choice, because the pseudo-Mexican-food chain has teamed with Marvel Comics to provide a combo pack of comida and comics.

    Take the 'Ultimate' Challenge: Draw upon the TACO BELL & MARVEL alliance Michael Cavna 2011

  • Only this week, the president justified his own failure to tackle entitlements in his dud of a 2012 budget by saying that "the chairman of the House Republican budgeteers didn't sign on" to the final report of Mr. Obama's deficit commission.

    Ryan's Charge Up Entitlement Hill Paul A. Gigot 2011

  • Mr. Kasich's budgeteers estimate that the bill would have saved Ohio at least $216 million in 2010 and some $1.1 billion for local governments, where most of the state's collective bargaining contracts are negotiated.

    The Buckeye Union Lesson 2011

  • And recall that budget "cuts" in the out years are a favorite trick of budgeteers who will be long gone when those cuts never materialize.

    Two facts on the budget Jennifer Rubin 2011

  • Armchair budgeteers often point out that the U.S. spends more on defense than the next several nations combined.

    Why Defense Cuts Don't Make Sense Buck McKeon 2011

  • The budgeteers claim $630 million in cuts from what are called "orphan earmarks," or construction that never started, and $2 billion more for transportation projects, some of which were likely to be canceled.

    Spending Cut Hokum 2011

  • But, filtered through the prism of June Henton's mind it has become a tool for building political will among budgeteers desensitized to the agony of hungry people.

    Dan Silverstein: Life Changing Leadership in a Small Southern Town 2010

  • And to keep the debt estimate down the budgeteers are making wishful assumptions that millions of high-paying jobs will reappear and health care reform will pay for itself.

    Washington Possessed 2010

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