WordNet
n. a budget for current expenses as distinct from financial transactions or permanent improvements
Wikipedia
An operating budget is the annual budget of an activity stated in terms of Budget Classification Code, functional/subfunctional categories and cost accounts. It contains estimates of the total value of resources required for the performance of the operation including reimbursable work or services for others. It also includes estimates of workload in terms of total work units identified by cost accounts.
In the United States, businesses along with state and local governments divide their budgets into two types: the operating budget and capital budget. The operating budget is used to keep track of maintenance operations, salaries, and interest payments.
Usage examples of "operating budget".
We used off-the-shelf components and shaved funds from some of our other programs, including our fixed operating budget.
The repairs were using up a sizable portion of the Indian navy's annual operating budget, which had been her principal concern.
Let me know what you think it will take to get the salvage operation off the ground, and I'll see to it the funds are secretly transferred into NUMA's annual operating budget.
The expense, filtered through several layers of accounting, should wind up in the backwaters of the Polytechnic's operating budget.
Porfirio blew his top, and then blew it louder when he found out that that opened case was one of seven, but I really thought the roof was going to come off the adobe when he discovered that Juan Bautista had added them to the station's order list, which meant that they'd been paid for out of the station's operating budget.
Because of politics, not effectiveness or cost-efficiency, the CIOC had ordered Paul Hood to cut his operating budget.
Fuller offered us a sixty-foot research vessel like his, with operating budget, if we back his dolphin project.
CIA used the Dienst as one of the conduits by which it increased its unreported operating budget through worldwide drug dealing.
That girl is a good client of hers and also made a sizable donation to the club's operating budget.
With a staff numbering in the low twenties and an operating budget under four million a year, we were hardly a drop in the bucket as far as Washington was concerned.
He was sure that the hospital would-- the annual gifts from the Danol family were more than half of the operating budget.