Definition & Meaning | English word ZERO-BASED

Definitions of ZERO-BASED

1. (finance) Of a budget or budgeting system: such that every expense needs to be approved every year, without the possibility of automatically accepting something because of its prior existence.
2. (computer programming) Of an array or list: such the first element of the array or list is called the zeroth.

Examples of Using ZERO-BASED in a Sentence

• an integer, cnd ← 0 (the zero-based index in W of the next character of the current candidate substring).
• He also began an audit into the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles to investigate the strength of its driver's license application process, and declared his support for the adoption of the Taxpayer Bill of Rights and zero-based budgeting for all state agencies.
• The mayor worked in partnership with the city's management and the unionized employees to use the zero-based budgeting process and to find millions of dollars in reductions in the city's budget without layoffs.
• DCAA Contract Audit Manual requires its audit staff to conform to zero-based budgeting in the performance of its audits.
• He was seen as having pro-business and pro-development views, and campaigned on enhanced public safety and enacting the zero-based budgeting model in municipal governance to achieve zero-increase property taxes, which was a misstatement about the purpose of zero-based budgeting, which operates similarly to the planning-programming budgeting system but rather than submitting the previous operating numbers, departments or units submit zeros and councils determine a new figure.
• The Grading System of San Beda University is zero-based in nature which implies no transmutations are to be made.

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