fixed budget

collocation in English

meaningsoffixedandbudget

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fixed
adjective
uk
/fɪkst/us
/fɪkst/
arranged or decided already and not able to ...
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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 offixedandbudgetfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffixed budget

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Each year publicly financed hospitals receive afixedbudgetfor medium and low medical devices as well as for pharmaceuticals.
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Similarly, in deciding whether to authorize the use of implantable cardiac defibrillators (3), in the presence of afixedbudget, the weight given to the opportunity cost becomes critical.
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Are we going to have afixedbudgeteach year, determined almost whimsically by civil servants?
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I am the first to accept that to try to set a detailedfixedbudgetover five years is extremely difficult.
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I should like to deal with two points which caused them concern: can the staff run it and how will thefixedbudgetoperate?
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We have afixedbudgetfor the referendum drawn up, bearing in mind constraints on public expenditure.
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He will have to work to afixedbudgetand there will be strains on that budget.
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Unlike covenants, they do not have to tie up sums of money for years to come, but give arts groups afixedbudgetto manage.
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A care trust seeking to provide a joint service would have to merge and manage the two different cultures within afixedbudget.
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The reason is that it containsfixedbudgetitems, together with guidelines on agricultural spending.
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The combination of afixedbudgetand the use of discretion is an appropriate way in which to meet exceptional needs.
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If we have no more resources and nofixedbudget, do we simply ask for a further £100 million or so?
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Without the discipline of afixedbudget, the incentives to achieve efficiency gains disappear and costs would inevitably rise.
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Therefore, either more must be spent on mobility for disabled people or, within afixedbudget, less must be spent on non-drivers than on drivers.
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Is the sole serious obligation in the contract to be to stay within afixedbudgetthat will further squeeze the quality of service?
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We are entitled to know whether we are dealing with afixedbudget.
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The question really relates to the principle of having afixedbudgetfor the social fund.
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That can distort a social services budget when a local authority is working within afixedbudget.
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It is afixedbudget, there are fixed amounts, and the pressure upon me has been to designate many organisations in order to ensure as fair a distribution as possible.
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Decisions on social fund applications are made by social fund officers who are required to exercise discretion when making decisions and to operate within afixedbudget.
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