shoestring budget

collocation in English

meaningsofshoestringandbudget

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shoestring
noun[C usually plural]
uk
/ˈʃuː.strɪŋ/us
/ˈʃuː.strɪŋ/
US
a ...
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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 ofshoestringandbudgetfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It was said that it was being launched on ashoestringbudget—but look at it now.
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That can only be described as ashoestringbudget.
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However, community health councils have had to operate on ashoestringbudgetfor many years.
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At present, it has to run on ashoestringbudget.
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Many of such agencies operate on ashoestringbudgetand have limited facilities, nevertheless they perform a vital function.
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We were not even given ashoestringbudget—we could not afford the shoestring.
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Ashoestringbudgetof £400,000 is totally inadequate to prevent the widespread netting of fish at night.
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It cannot exist on ashoestringbudget.
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It is impossible to carry out a national operation on ashoestringbudget, though that is exactly what the national voluntary youth organisations have been doing for years.
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I am involved in one in the borough which comes within my constituency, which is doing its best to offer a counselling service on ashoestringbudget.
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Run on ashoestringbudget, they are yet served by staffs who are fanatically devoted to broadcasting and, in particular, to local broadcasting.
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Care in the community is cheaper but more difficult to carry out effectively, especially on ashoestringbudget.
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Often, it has set up services on ashoestringbudgetto meet a previously unrecognised need and has developed sources of funding until they become stable within the community.
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The film obviously was made on ashoestringbudget, and the people in it are no more than props for the magnified insects.
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For the next 22 years, the station more-or-less ran on ashoestringbudget.
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It started on ashoestringbudget, playing only a few dates in small-town arenas.
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The museum is run on ashoestringbudget, and can be visited only through arrangement.
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The album was completed on ashoestringbudget, but everyone involved was happy with the finished product.
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Despite ashoestringbudget, the show was a high quality product.
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The buskers' sense of camaraderie led to them raising enough money between them to make a record on ashoestringbudget.
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