earmark in English

noun

1

a characteristic or identifying feature.

this car has all the earmarks of a classic

synonyms: characteristics, attribute, feature, hallmark, quality

2

a congressional directive that funds should be spent on a specific project.

For example, some members of Congress post some earmark requests online.

3

a mark on the ear of a domesticated animal indicating ownership or identity.

verb

1

designate (something, typically funds or resources) for a particular purpose.

the new money will be earmarked for cancer research

synonyms: set aside, keep (back), reserve, designate, assign, mark, allocate, allot, devote, pledge, give over

2

mark the ear of (an animal) as a sign of ownership or identity.

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.

noun

• characteristics, attribute, feature, hallmark, quality
• trademark, hallmark

verb

• set aside, keep (back), reserve, designate, assign, mark, allocate, allot, devote, pledge, give over
• allow, set aside, reserve, appropriate

Use "earmark" in a sentence

1. 5 Who fought against wasteful and earmark spending?

2. Correct speech is an earmark of the educated man.Sentencedict.com

3. 2 Correct speech is an earmark of the educated man.

4. 1 I will earmark this money for your research.

5. 29 synonyms for Allocate: assign, grant, distribute, designate, set aside, earmark, give out, consign

6. 11 He knows the Treasury does not allow departments to earmark tax revenues.

7. 8 The company has decided to earmark a portion of this year's profits to invest in securities.

8. 15 HAL : This assignment is likewise essential for me to earmark you to threaten it.

9. 9 The school has decided to earmark 20 percent of its funds for book purchases.

10. 10 We earmark more capital to increase the amount of agricultural and aquatic products to be exported.

11. 3 He also undertook to earmark $ 235 billion in government expenditure on infrastructure projects within five years.

12. 12 The charge has hit a nerve, persuading the company to earmark 265 Levantine buildings for special restoration.

13. 6 This year,(www.Sentencedict.com) the central treasury will earmark 6 billion yuan of poverty - relief funds.

14. 4 Mark Foley, R-Fla., that would earmark $ 210 million to purchase environmentally sensitive areas near the Everglades.

15. India has also agreed to earmark USD 100 million as Buyer's Credit under the National Export Insurance Account.

16. 14 Mechanically, electrically, behaviorally and cosmetically, our paired sounding boards are a genuine earmark of our species.

17. 7 It expounds the essential earmark of garbage and the limitation of garbage function transformation: garbage classification.

18. 13 Because the national curriculum can not be properly taught without new textbooks, we will earmark funds for class and library books.

19. 16 If likely, the square table that buys a piece to be able to adjust height freely or round-table also be very ideal, frame tall when can regard as mensal , move low after but earmark tea table.

20. Allot: 1 v give out Synonyms: assign , portion Types: show 5 types hide 5 types allow , appropriate , earmark , reserve , set aside give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause allocate , apportion distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose reallocate , reapportion allocate, distribute, or apportion

21. Allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something; "I Allow for this possibility"; "The seamstress planned for 5% shrinkage after the first wash" give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause; "I will earmark this money for your research"; "She sets aside time for meditation every day"

22. Ghali identified the need for "preventive action to ease tensions before the result in conflict – or if conflict breaks out, to act swiftly to contain it and resolve its underlying causes".18 He then proposed that member states earmark forces to be called upon for "peace enforcement" operations, placed under the control of the Security Council and the Secretary-General. Doctor Mats Berdal, Director of Studies and Adelphi Papers at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London, stated shortly thereafter that "the much vaunted report was little more than a codification of ideas, most of which were first adumbrated in the wake of the Congo operation in the mid-1960s".