budget squeeze

and budget crunch

n. a situation where there is not enough money in the budget. Facing another budget squeeze, the legislators were forced to put off their pay increase. If it wasn’t for the budget crunch, I’d get a good raise this year.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
UltÁN	UL-tan	Irish
Robert	RAH-bərt (English), ro-BER (French), RO-bert (German), RO-bərt (Dutch), RAW-bert (Polish), RO-byert (Russian), RO-beert (Russian)	English, French, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Dutch, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Russian, Slovene,
Amilia	ə-MEE-lee-ə, ə-MEEL-yə	English (Rare)
Drahoslav	-	Czech, Slovak
Gorica	-	Macedonian
Majid	-	Arabic