n. A small bag or sack; a pouch or portable depository for miscellaneous articles: now chiefly figurative: as, to open a budget of news.n. A stock or store; a collection: as, a budget of news.n. A pocket used by tilers to hold nails.n. In Great Britain, the annual financial statement which the chancellor of the exchequer makes in the House of Commons, sitting as a committee of ways and means.n. Hence Any similar official estimate and statement.