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microbudget en · NOUN

Etymology

From micro- + budget.

Meanings

1. (attributive, often) A very small budget.
   • Having scored a distribution deal for this microbudget film she shot with friends in Seattle over a handful of days last summer, Ms. Shelton embarked on a sort of victory lap of the festival circuit. 2009 July 5, Michelle Orange, “She’s a Director Who’s Just Another Dude”, in New York Times:
   • We now have thousands upon thousands of tiny movies made on microbudgets, financed with personal credit cards. 2013, Lynda Obst, Sleepless in Hollywood, page 45:

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