The phrase "tighten budget" is correct and can be used in written English.
For example, "Our department has had to tighten the budget this year in order to stay within the allocated funds".
At a meeting Monday, all European Union nations except Britain and the Czech Republic agreed to a new fiscal compact demanded by Germany, intended to tighten budget discipline.
Thus, the only remaining option, as unpleasant as it may be for some countries, is to tighten budget constraints in the eurozone.
French leaders have also pressed for speedy adoption of European legislation to tighten budget discipline across the euro zone, as well as measures to pool at least some of the euro zone countries' debt.
Irish voters, already tired of austerity measures that have weighed heavily on their economy, on Thursday cast ballots on whether to back the European Union's fiscal compact, an agreement to tighten budget rules.
Most important, most leaders think resolving the euro crisis must take priority over British demands and they resent Britain's attempts to exploit the euro crisis for its own ends.A year ago most EU countries sidestepped Mr Cameron's misconceived veto of the "fiscal compact", a treaty to tighten budget discipline.
It will be tough to tighten budgets as the region's economies reel.
But he said the current drive to tighten budgets provided the ideal opportunity to trim the fat.
Future pressures on newspapers to tighten budgets and cut corners might lead, as the former Irish Times editor Conor Brady has suggested, to "lapses, errors and tendencies toward sensationalism".
Mr. Fox, the analyst, said such hotels, which also have lower room rates than full-service lodgings, will do well "in down times, as business travelers tighten budgets".
More than 5,400 nursing posts have been cut since the Coalition came to power, as NHS trusts tighten budgets in the wake of an unprecedented slowdown in health spending.
But as colleges across the country look for ways to tighten budgets amid recession-induced shortfalls, some administrators — most recently in the South — have focused on college radio, leading even well-endowed universities to sell off their FM stations.
