tight budget
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftightandbudget
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tight
adjective
adverb
uk/taɪt/us/taɪt/
(held or kept together) firmly ...
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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 oftightandbudgetfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Going for stability and prestige + and keeping to atightbudget+ generally led to standardization, repetition and monotony.
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Whether to demonstrate apparent fiscal restraint or to find room in atightbudgetfor desired discretionary programs, the administration can gain by adopting low spending estimates for welfare entitlements.
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I have taken it up with the county council, which has atightbudget, partly because of the expansion of special educational needs provision.
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They are committed to a contract and to working to atightbudget, and now they will have to find this extra money.
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I have been involved in working out such programmes, and sometimes they are done on atightbudget.
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It may involve atightbudgetfor meals, providing food of a quality and quantity below what elderly residents should have.
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The last thing they need is a threat to an alreadytightbudget.
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But they are real costs and all local health authorities are under verytightbudgetconstraints.
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Fourthly, the group may or may not have inherited atightbudgetwhich required savings to balance the books.
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He will be on atightbudget, he will no longer have this privilege and perhaps all that he can afford is a solo guitar.
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Therefore, the cost of living has increased for families on atightbudget.
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Inevitably, on atightbudgetthe chief constable does not easily have the resources to do that.
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They have saved the deposit but are operating on atightbudget.
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It was also atightbudgetfrom the point of view of including this project for nuclear high-energy physics.
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I am pleased that we have managed to set up sometightbudgettargets and even go on and meet those targets.
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What is the point of spending money on yet another institution in view of such atightbudgetfor the years 2007-2013?
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He is not a man of great means, and he had to calculate this on a verytightbudget.
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If people have to manage on atightbudgetand the kids need shoes, who will put money into a pension?
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Who on atightbudgetand with a small income will put money into either the stakeholder pension or the state second pension?
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Given thetightbudget, it seems unlikely that such offices will be adequately staffed.
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