How to Use unbudgeted in a Sentence

unbudgeted

adjective
  • The first, in the amount of $7,312, covers the unbudgeted purchase of two milk coolers, one for the elementary school and one for the middle school.
    B.j. Pollock, Houston Chronicle, 28 Dec. 2019
  • Not only is tax revenue falling, but unbudgeted spending is on the rise.
    Conrad Swanson, The Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2020
  • That’s an unbudgeted cost—and states, unlike the federal government, are required to balance their budgets.
    Maryn McKenna, Wired, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Every venue where human contact occurs will need to spend new, unbudgeted hygiene money.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 2 May 2020
  • His first term also has been plagued by problems at the Bexar County Jail, including improper transfers or inadvertent releases of inmates, high turnover of guards and unbudgeted overtime costs.
    Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, 17 Oct. 2020
  • In Los Angeles, the coronavirus emergency has resulted in well over $200 million in unbudgeted expenses.
    Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2020
  • Ball said the overtime deficit would be offset by savings from salaries and fringe benefits, as well as additional revenues from the unbudgeted continuance of providing emergency room security for Froedtert Hospital.
    Vanessa Swales, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 May 2022
  • The foundation invested in startup companies that failed miserably, gave big paychecks to foundation officials and others and paid at least $42 million in unbudgeted or excessive expenses.
    Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Organizations across the health and human services sector spent millions of unbudgeted dollars on personal protective equipment, cleaning services, overtime and hazard pay for workers and technology needed to pivot to telehealth.
    Michael Hamad, courant.com, 7 Sep. 2020
  • Coronavirus Relief Fund distribution, these funds can only cover certain unbudgeted expenses.
    Star Tribune, 6 Aug. 2020

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