Carolopedia
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📖 Carolopedia › CapGuide page
📖What it means
A hard limit on spending for a named line of work. The cap is the CONTROL — a limit that only warns is not a cap, and one that names a vendor instead of a service is measuring the wrong thing.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Estate ceiling
A cap governs one track; the ceiling is the outer backstop over everything.
Not: Budget
A budget is what was allocated; a cap is the enforcement of it.
🗣️Also called
limitspending capbudget limit