bajet
n.— «This does not explain why the government itself introduced new words like Bajet, for ‘Budget’, into the Malay language, when the word Belanjawan was once commonly used.» —“Uproar over rojak Malay” by Leslie Lau Straits Times (Singapore) May 4, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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