Carolopedia
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📖 Carolopedia › Estate ceilingGuide page
📖What it means
The outer backstop over everything the estate spends. It is deliberately NOT the control: the real control is one spending limit per service track. The ceiling exists to catch a catastrophe, not to shape day-to-day behaviour.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Budget cap
A cap governs one track and is the actual control; the ceiling is a last-resort backstop over the sum of everything.
🗣️Also called
overall capouter limitbackstop