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off-budget

/awf-buhj-it, of-/US // ˈɔfˈbʌdʒ ɪt, ˈɒf- //

非预算,非预算的,非预算内,预算外

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    U.S. Government.

    • : not included in the regular federal budget; funded through separate agencies.

Examples

  • Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.

  • A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.

  • Community policing is expensive and, in an era of budget cuts, increasingly rare.

  • The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.

  • The off-year special election into which Duke threw himself drew little media notice at first.

  • A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.

  • Regular taxation, monopolies, mortgages, and loans barely sufficed to provide for the budget.

  • "Working men have been hit very hard by the tyrannical Budget," announces a morning paper.

  • Several uneducated business men are said to have written to the Dean asking the Latin for what they think of the new Budget.

  • Having had time to consider the Budget proposals in detail Mr. Asquith was less complimentary and more critical.