military budget
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmilitaryandbudget
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military
adjective
uk/ˈmɪl.ɪ.tər.i/us/ˈmɪl.ə.ter.i/
relating to or belonging to the ...
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budget
noun
uk/ˈbʌdʒ.ɪt/us/ˈbʌdʒ.ɪt/
a plan to show how much money a person or organization will earn and how much they will need or be able ...
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(Definition ofmilitaryandbudgetfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The reduction of theirmilitarybudgetwill be a dividend to invest in a fund for democratic transition.
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This comprised £69,129,000 for themilitarybudget, £82,495,000 for the infrastructure budget and £17,052,935 for the civil budget.
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A risingmilitarybudgetis certainly no way out of a recession.
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We often forget that over the past 10 years, £7.7 billion has been taken out of ourmilitarybudget.
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What is the purpose of doubling themilitarybudget?
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You do not need the ninth largest army and the fifteenth largestmilitarybudgetin the world.
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At a time when there are widespread appeals for cuts in public expenditure, it is nonsensical to talk of exempting themilitarybudget.
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The biggest expenditure that we face is on ourmilitarybudget.
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Not only will we probably never get it, but it means disturbing and busting up ourmilitarybudgetand our military thinking.
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One important element would be for it to cut back on itsmilitarybudget.
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Yet at the same time, the authorities continued to squander exorbitant sums of money on themilitarybudgetand on ceremonial expenditure.
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A highmilitarybudgetis normally accompanied by a fall in economic growth rate.
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They must go to the nation and demand from it a far biggermilitarybudgetthan that which they have now got.
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The expenditure is not included in themilitarybudget.
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With all the demands for public spending there will always be constraints on the optimalmilitarybudget.
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Yet thismilitarybudgetis said to be too small.
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As this has not taken place, it is clear that in other parts of themilitarybudgetthere has been an actual rise.
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That can be best shown by considering this effectiveness of the major insurance that we are now paying—amilitarybudgetrunning at £8,000 million a year.
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When it is compared, however, with the totalmilitarybudgetthe sum is not large.
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It is now faced with war on two fronts and, in building itsmilitarybudget, it must consider that.
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