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Definition of earmark in English: earmarkverb ˈɪəmɑːkˈɪrˌmɑrk [with object]1Designate (funds or resources) for a particular purpose. the cash had been earmarked for a big expansion of the programme Example sentencesExamples - Another $300-million was earmarked for those infected outside that time.
- The plan earmarks $1.3 billion for unmanned missions to the moon over the next five years, including a lunar orbiter to be launched by 2008.
- What is important to note is that the funding for this project came from EU funding, which is earmarked for this particular project.
- The opposition lawmakers argued that since this is a special budget, every single expense should be earmarked for specific purposes.
- He recently assured the Capital City Development Forum that Rs.75 crores had been earmarked for the purpose.
- Of the additional funding almost £10m is earmarked for national pension contribution changes.
- Officials insist there is no set funding target but the money is understood to be earmarked for capital expenditure on roads and building programmes.
- The other £100,000 of funding has been earmarked for encouraging tourism in and around Chesterfield.
- Some faculty members expressed the opinion that such funding had already been earmarked for specific purposes.
- A further £750,000 will be earmarked for community-driven activities centring on education and cohesion.
- The draft budget earmarks $50,000 for Todd Mall promotion.
- Roughly $700,000 was earmarked for a trust fund for Terri, and $300,000 for Michael.
- Also, a portion of the proceeds will be earmarked for providing school fees for poor children for the coming academic year.
- Funding has already been earmarked for the Trafalgar Day Celebrations and has been provided for the recent Youth Festival.
- The additional funding has been earmarked for specific types of developments.
- Failure to do so will end with the same result as last year that saw a refusal to allow even a motion for a waiver scheme to be discussed because funds had not been earmarked for that purpose.
- We have reserves but they should be earmarked for essential capital projects.
- These must pay for themselves while public funds are earmarked for yet more road - building.
- About $320 million of those funds would be earmarked for discretionary spending by the transportation authority.
- Congress pork-barrel spends and earmarks all of this money while we have enlisted families on food stamps.
Synonyms set aside, lay aside, set apart, keep back, appropriate, reserve, keep designate, assign, label, tag, mark allocate to, allot to, devote to, pledge to, commit to, give over to rare hypothecate - 1.1 Designate a particular outcome for (someone or something)
the yard has been earmarked for a complete overhaul Example sentencesExamples - Let's say you have earmarked a player that you think can do all the things we've talked about but then you find that he might not actually want to come.
- To assist with this, consideration might be given to earmarking Army units to specific regions, at least for the purposes of cultural and linguistic training.
- He is still earmarked by the club as one for the future.
- Speed cameras on a one-mile stretch of busy road in Cottingley will finally be switched on more than a year after they were earmarked to go live.
- He spoke to officials from Tesco, which has earmarked the land for development, about making it more secure.
- The land has also been earmarked for possible future public transport expansion, even though the report to the committee admits this is unlikely to be realised.
- The prestigious office building project, set among riverside promenades and a public plaza, is earmarked for Northern Foods.
- So far, nearly one million animals have been slaughtered in Britain or are earmarked to die.
- The land was earmarked by the council for employment use but the developer applied to build flats there and won the right to do so on appeal.
- Piotrovsky has also earmarked a further building in St Petersburg for a separate space to display artefacts from the archaeology department.
- Health chiefs are developing a programme to deal with such an eventuality and have already earmarked some staff.
- Longer term he hopes to offer residential accommodation at the Lake of Menteith and has earmarked some buildings for development.
- Now another activity is set to make its debut, with the common being earmarked for the town's first purpose-built skatepark.
- And to pull the tourists in, land has been earmarked for a number of visitor attractions, one of which could be a reconstruction of a fort from Braveheart.
- There are 300 schools in total that are earmarked to close.
- Dave Bassett has earmarked Craig Hignett as his first Leicester signing.
- Agreeing with MacArthur's reasoning, the war department earmarked some of its most modern weapons and planes for the Philippines.
- The officers have recommended 20 per cent of the development must also be earmarked for affordable social housing.
- After discussions with the sub-postmaster at Hindsford, they earmarked the post office for closure.
- Two years ago Eastleigh civic chiefs earmarked the site for major improvements in the borough's Local Plan.
Synonyms save, put by, put aside, put away, lay aside, lay by, put to one side, keep, reserve, keep in reserve
2Mark the ear of (a domesticated animal) as a sign of ownership or identity. Example sentencesExamples - Condition scoring is also useful for earmarking cattle as they come close to finish as sometimes farmers who are looking at the same cattle each day can be unaware of the degree of finish achieved.
- The legislation, which follows an EU directive, requires sheep farmers to earmark or tattoo every sheep on their land with their place of birth.
noun ˈɪəmɑːkˈɪrˌmɑrk 1A characteristic or identifying feature. this car has all the earmarks of a classic Example sentencesExamples - This has the earmarks of the sort of backroom politicking that has marked some of the darkest chapters in American history.
- In ‘Lazy Days’ he introduces the student to what it's like to run a melody line over a slow-walking bass line - one of the earmarks of jazz styling.
- That was an earmark of the way I approached electronics.
- The film has all the earmarks of a major commercial event.
- But while it may have had some of the earmarks of a religious revival, this movement was rooted firmly in the material world.
- I did grow up in a neighborhood with many earmarks of suburbia.
- This movie has all the earmarks of a great premise that was dumbed down to appeal to an increasingly less adventuresome multiplex audience.
- Even I am willing to admit such an action bears all the earmarks of anti-social behavior.
- Having said that, I have to go on to say that, for me, this story in the Times has all the earmarks of a load of old cobblers.
- I am always ready to believe the worst when warranted, but this has all the earmarks of a wild rumor.
- These occurrences have the earmarks of hoaxing.
- He showed all the earmarks of a real hunter, a man who took nothing for granted.
- In short, the study has all the earmarks of a cluster-sample study that failed.
- As publishers and record companies looked for the earmarks of potential long-term hits, several releases in late 1941 exploited early returns from the front.
- The year 2004 has all the earmarks of a milestone year for the entrepreneurial space industry.
- The situation has all the earmarks of a well-made movie thriller!
- This has all the earmarks of a franchise that has run its course.
- This confrontation had all the earmarks of a disaster.
- It did nothing to note the earmarks of fraud that surrounded the story.
- By August the troopers of the 14th were well aware that 1961 had already been a very eventful year and had all the earmarks of becoming even more eventful.
Synonyms characteristic, attribute, feature, quality, essential quality, property, mark, trademark, hallmark mannerism, way, tendency literary lineament 2US A congressional directive that funds should be spent on a specific project. Example sentencesExamples - Senator, on this issue of earmarks that you talk about frequently, you reiterated yesterday that you have never taken an earmark.
- Under Republican control, we have gone, I believe, in 1994 from about 2,000 earmarks per year to over 10,000.
- I championed earmark reform, also, to help Congress stop wasting money on those things that do not serve the public interest.
- Democrats and Republicans are being held in the spotlight for their earmarks.
- Last year, he did ask for some $311 million in earmarks.
- Where does a lot of that earmark money end up anyway?
- Watchdog groups say it's hard to determine if the Senate's passage of this bailout was bought with earmarks.
- Earmark portions of government research grants to cover IRB overhead costs.
- He has been able to turn the promise of earmarks for other Democrats into votes on close issues.
- And in those speeches, she insists she's fought hard against pork barrel projects, basically telling America she'll stand up to government earmarks.
- Projects supported by earmarks this year are varied.
- For example, some members of Congress post some earmark requests online.
- A spokesman for McConnell says the requests were made last year, and notes he voted for an amendment to strike all earmarks, which failed.
- Hasn't his administration endorsed almost half of the nearly 12,000 earmarks that have been approved in 2008?
- It is a fact that as governor she lobbies for earmarks.
- In all, eager members in both houses enacted 11,144 earmarks, worth $15 billion.
- Also, remember John McCain's famous line about earmarks from the campaign trail.
- And it's really not an accurate account of all earmarks.
- The Obama camp is pressing the Clinton camp to release its earmark requests as well.
- The Senate also soundly defeated a bill to ban earmarks for a year.
3A mark on the ear of a domesticated animal indicating ownership or identity.
Definition of earmark in US English: earmarkverbˈirˌmärkˈɪrˌmɑrk [with object]1Designate (something, typically funds or resources) for a particular purpose. the new money will be earmarked for cancer research Example sentencesExamples - Failure to do so will end with the same result as last year that saw a refusal to allow even a motion for a waiver scheme to be discussed because funds had not been earmarked for that purpose.
- Some faculty members expressed the opinion that such funding had already been earmarked for specific purposes.
- The opposition lawmakers argued that since this is a special budget, every single expense should be earmarked for specific purposes.
- These must pay for themselves while public funds are earmarked for yet more road - building.
- Funding has already been earmarked for the Trafalgar Day Celebrations and has been provided for the recent Youth Festival.
- Roughly $700,000 was earmarked for a trust fund for Terri, and $300,000 for Michael.
- The other £100,000 of funding has been earmarked for encouraging tourism in and around Chesterfield.
- We have reserves but they should be earmarked for essential capital projects.
- The plan earmarks $1.3 billion for unmanned missions to the moon over the next five years, including a lunar orbiter to be launched by 2008.
- A further £750,000 will be earmarked for community-driven activities centring on education and cohesion.
- The draft budget earmarks $50,000 for Todd Mall promotion.
- About $320 million of those funds would be earmarked for discretionary spending by the transportation authority.
- Congress pork-barrel spends and earmarks all of this money while we have enlisted families on food stamps.
- Of the additional funding almost £10m is earmarked for national pension contribution changes.
- He recently assured the Capital City Development Forum that Rs.75 crores had been earmarked for the purpose.
- Also, a portion of the proceeds will be earmarked for providing school fees for poor children for the coming academic year.
- What is important to note is that the funding for this project came from EU funding, which is earmarked for this particular project.
- The additional funding has been earmarked for specific types of developments.
- Another $300-million was earmarked for those infected outside that time.
- Officials insist there is no set funding target but the money is understood to be earmarked for capital expenditure on roads and building programmes.
Synonyms set aside, lay aside, set apart, keep back, appropriate, reserve, keep 2Mark the ear of (an animal) as a sign of ownership or identity. Example sentencesExamples - Condition scoring is also useful for earmarking cattle as they come close to finish as sometimes farmers who are looking at the same cattle each day can be unaware of the degree of finish achieved.
- The legislation, which follows an EU directive, requires sheep farmers to earmark or tattoo every sheep on their land with their place of birth.
nounˈirˌmärkˈɪrˌmɑrk 1A characteristic or identifying feature. this car has all the earmarks of a classic Example sentencesExamples - The year 2004 has all the earmarks of a milestone year for the entrepreneurial space industry.
- This has all the earmarks of a franchise that has run its course.
- The film has all the earmarks of a major commercial event.
- I am always ready to believe the worst when warranted, but this has all the earmarks of a wild rumor.
- This confrontation had all the earmarks of a disaster.
- Having said that, I have to go on to say that, for me, this story in the Times has all the earmarks of a load of old cobblers.
- This has the earmarks of the sort of backroom politicking that has marked some of the darkest chapters in American history.
- In ‘Lazy Days’ he introduces the student to what it's like to run a melody line over a slow-walking bass line - one of the earmarks of jazz styling.
- But while it may have had some of the earmarks of a religious revival, this movement was rooted firmly in the material world.
- Even I am willing to admit such an action bears all the earmarks of anti-social behavior.
- That was an earmark of the way I approached electronics.
- In short, the study has all the earmarks of a cluster-sample study that failed.
- He showed all the earmarks of a real hunter, a man who took nothing for granted.
- The situation has all the earmarks of a well-made movie thriller!
- As publishers and record companies looked for the earmarks of potential long-term hits, several releases in late 1941 exploited early returns from the front.
- These occurrences have the earmarks of hoaxing.
- This movie has all the earmarks of a great premise that was dumbed down to appeal to an increasingly less adventuresome multiplex audience.
- It did nothing to note the earmarks of fraud that surrounded the story.
- I did grow up in a neighborhood with many earmarks of suburbia.
- By August the troopers of the 14th were well aware that 1961 had already been a very eventful year and had all the earmarks of becoming even more eventful.
Synonyms characteristic, attribute, feature, quality, essential quality, property, mark, trademark, hallmark 2US A congressional directive that funds should be spent on a specific project. Example sentencesExamples - Senator, on this issue of earmarks that you talk about frequently, you reiterated yesterday that you have never taken an earmark.
- And it's really not an accurate account of all earmarks.
- Democrats and Republicans are being held in the spotlight for their earmarks.
- I championed earmark reform, also, to help Congress stop wasting money on those things that do not serve the public interest.
- Also, remember John McCain's famous line about earmarks from the campaign trail.
- Last year, he did ask for some $311 million in earmarks.
- For example, some members of Congress post some earmark requests online.
- In all, eager members in both houses enacted 11,144 earmarks, worth $15 billion.
- Watchdog groups say it's hard to determine if the Senate's passage of this bailout was bought with earmarks.
- And in those speeches, she insists she's fought hard against pork barrel projects, basically telling America she'll stand up to government earmarks.
- The Senate also soundly defeated a bill to ban earmarks for a year.
- It is a fact that as governor she lobbies for earmarks.
- Hasn't his administration endorsed almost half of the nearly 12,000 earmarks that have been approved in 2008?
- Earmark portions of government research grants to cover IRB overhead costs.
- The Obama camp is pressing the Clinton camp to release its earmark requests as well.
- Under Republican control, we have gone, I believe, in 1994 from about 2,000 earmarks per year to over 10,000.
- Projects supported by earmarks this year are varied.
- Where does a lot of that earmark money end up anyway?
- A spokesman for McConnell says the requests were made last year, and notes he voted for an amendment to strike all earmarks, which failed.
- He has been able to turn the promise of earmarks for other Democrats into votes on close issues.
3A mark on the ear of a domesticated animal indicating ownership or identity.
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