The phrase "augment the budget" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing financial matters, particularly when referring to increasing or enhancing the allocated funds for a project or organization.
Example: "In order to meet the new project requirements, we need to augment the budget to ensure we have sufficient resources."
Alternatives: "increase the budget" or "boost the budget."
The council augmented the budget to build the Park Avenue View Park and a small Laguna Canyon park with a transfer of $98,000 from the Diamond Crestview Guard Railing Project.
Comparing the grosses against those of other, similar pictures in the same time-span, the studio computers whirr all weekend to produce the best possible projection, come Monday morning, of the film's ultimate potential.If the omens are good, the distributors will augment the advertising budget in the second week.
Some funding, however, will be provided to augment the lab budget.
"In the years past, we would augment the utility budget.
Mr. Rumsfeld's impending request to Congress to augment the 2002 Pentagon budget, for instance, is expected to be heavily weighted toward health care, building repairs, training and spare parts -- the kinds of unglamorous programs that can affect morale.
Riverside Park Fund's members hired seasonal gardeners and attendants at recreational areas, paid for supplies and repairs to augment the park's budget and contributed private finances for major improvements.
Budget appeals can be considered to augment the standard financial aid budget for the some of the increased costs of studying on exchange.
On Friday, the administration asked Congress to augment the current $296 billion defense budget by $5.6 billion, largely to pay for increased health care and fuel costs.
To add insult to injury, in wealthier districts, parents and residents boost the budgets and augment the programs of schools through taxes, fund-raising, and political influence.
Yet despite these constraints, there may be creative ways to augment the workforce and stretch budgets to alter or supplement practices that would enable adaptation to climate change.> Tackling the challenge of managing natural resources in the face of climate change requires that staff members not only feel valued but also empowered by their institutions.
