earmark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪəmɑːk/
ipa: /ˈɪ(ə)ɹˌmɑɹk/
text: -
Forms: form: earmarks
form: earmarking
form: earmarked
form: earmarked
Etymology: The noun is derived from ear + mark. The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
hyponyms: ear-tag
coordinate_terms: brand#Verb
chip
glosses: To make a mark or attach a tag to the ear of (an animal, chiefly a livestock animal), generally to identify or indicate something about the animal, such as ownership.
glosses: To put a distinguishing or identifying mark or sign on (something); to make (something) distinctive or identifiable.
examples: text: In barely a decade, the War on Drugs went from being a political slogan to an actual war. Now that police departments were suddenly flush with cash and military equipment earmarked for the drug war, they needed to make use of their new resources.
ref: 2012, Michelle Alexander, “The Lockdown”, in The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The New Press, →ISBN, page 74:
text: But even I draw the line at "doing crunches" in designer clothes. Fashion sneakers are for swanking around the shops, not for running in. And so, like everyone else, I wear grotty old tracksuits earmarked for Oxfam, and tragic free festival T-shirts that give away my age.
ref: 2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: The gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Nov 2017:
synonyms: word: allot
word: appropriate
word: allocate
word: appropriate
word: assign
word: dedicate
word: detach
word: designate
word: earmark
word: preselect
word: put aside
word: secern
word: secernate
word: separate
word: sepose
word: sequester
word: set apart
word: set aside
glosses: To designate or set aside (someone or something) for a particular purpose; to allocate.
examples: text: You can donate to the organization as a whole, or you can earmark your contribution for a particular project.
text: A widening of the M4 had long been mooted, and the Welsh Government had even earmarked most of the required £1.6bn funding for a new 14-mile, six-lane section around Newport. Then, in the face of opposition from environmentalists, came a realisation that similar road schemes across the world tend merely to encourage greater car use and therefore soon prove ineffective in solving the original problem.
ref: 2020 December 2, Christian Wolmar, “Wales Offers Us a Glimpse of an Integrated Transport Policy”, in Rail, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 56:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Chiefly followed by for: to designate (certain funds) to be used for a specific purpose.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Chiefly followed by for: to designate (certain funds) to be used for a specific purpose.
To designate (part of a pension) to be payable to the holder's former spouse or payment when the pension is paid.
topics: business
finance
government
politics
glosses: Chiefly followed by for: to designate (certain funds) to be used for a specific purpose.
Of the Congress: to designate that certain federal funds be appropriated for a specific project.
hyponyms: lettermark
phonemark
Derived terms: word: earmarkable
word: earmarking
word: unearmarked