zero-base budgeting

noun

a process in government and corporate finance of justifying an overall budget or individual budgeted items each fiscal year or each review period rather than dealing only with proposed changes from a previous budget. Abbreviation: ZBB

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Also, zero-based budgeting.

Origin:
1970

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