(of a budget or budgeting) having each item costed anew, rather than in relation to its size or status in the previous budget.
〔财政〕（预算）零基的，从零开始的
Example sentencesExamples
As you prepare next year's budget, should you start from scratch and use zero-based budgeting?
This makes zero-based budgeting or even activity-based costing almost pointless from a budget officer's point of view, since so little of a district's funds are available for reallocation.
I'm tormented by these zero-based environments where we've abandoned so many children.
In Verilog, vectors are groups of wires or nets, and these are zero-base indexed.
Besides, his budget speech speaks of introducing stringent measures for expenditure control and zero-base budgeting.
Definition of zero-based in US English:
zero-based
adjectiveˈzērōbāstˈziroʊbeɪst
Finance
(of a budget or budgeting) having each item costed anew, rather than in relation to its size or status in the previous budget.
〔财政〕（预算）零基的，从零开始的
Example sentencesExamples
I'm tormented by these zero-based environments where we've abandoned so many children.
In Verilog, vectors are groups of wires or nets, and these are zero-base indexed.
This makes zero-based budgeting or even activity-based costing almost pointless from a budget officer's point of view, since so little of a district's funds are available for reallocation.
Besides, his budget speech speaks of introducing stringent measures for expenditure control and zero-base budgeting.
As you prepare next year's budget, should you start from scratch and use zero-based budgeting?