The phrase "lost budget" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a budget that has been mismanaged, exceeded, or is no longer available for use.
Example: "Due to unforeseen expenses, we have unfortunately lost budget for the upcoming project."
Alternatives: "overrun budget" or "depleted budget."
It is petty for the White House to use the census as a way to challenge the outcome of a lost budget battle.
For instance, a bill in the State Senate that would increase bear financing to $2 million and replace the lost budget appropriation has not been supported by the state Department of Environmental Protection.
She demands that Jack, an executive at NBC, give the show its lost budget but he denies the request, as a result Liz will not sign the divorce papers unless her conditions are met.
"There's these municipalities that say, 'Oh, no, we don't want you to flush our toilets with rainwater because we'll lose budget money on it,'" Crawford said.
Historical statistics show that as the IRS loses budget resources and manpower, the audit rate declines.
But this is not about losing budgets; it is about delivering services differently.
House Democrats did come up with an alternative budget, but it lost, and Budget and Ways & Means leaders James Jones and Dan Rostenkowski are still smarting from the humiliation the President dealt them.
When these fees were announced, the government said that the added revenue would be used to make repairs and reinstitute programs that had been lost in budget cuts.
Since BBC4 lost its budget for drama, some people – even those who love esoteric documentaries about German ceramics – would say it has become dry and dusty.
An estimated 500,000 illegal abortions are carried out in the country each year.There may be trouble aheadNorth Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state, looked set to hold early elections after its minority government lost a budget vote.
Judging from recent political discourse, "Who lost the budget surplus?" threatens to become the "Who lost China?" question of our times -- the focus of finger-pointing for years to come.
