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black budget

Noun

Meaning

black budget (plural black budgets)

(finance, government) A government budget that is allocated for classified or other secret operations of a nation.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

It's the sort of Maxwell Smart hack that used to cost the CIA black budget half a billion to develop in the '60s but is off-the-shelf from a Chinese toy factory these days. Charles Stross

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