0 to keep or intend something for a particular purpose:
Five billion dollars of this year's budget is already earmarked for hospital improvements.
1 to intend something for a particular purpose:
Ten thousand dollars of this year’s budget is earmarked for the renovation of the building.
2 in the US, a legal request that is added to a law to make sure that an amount of money from the US Congress’s budget is spent on a particular project:
3 an amount of money from the US Congress’s budget to be spent on a particular project:
4 a characteristic or feature that is typical of a person or thing:
5 to keep or plan to use something for a particular purpose:
There are no funds specifically earmarked for the biodiversity protection.
With a well-developed state apparatus, strong enforcement with taxation of the rents earmarked for redistribution would certainly be superior.
Currencies, for instance, can be turned into gifts, following certain rules, and used to earmark the creation, celebration, and sustaining of intimate ties.
Their motivation certainly changed again from the mid 1990s when the economic situation had improved and earmarked benefits were temporarily re-introduced.
Depending on their level earmarked grants for childcare may increase the willingness of municipalities to refrain from an obstruction of universal childcare provision.
Here, they would like to consume their entire gross consumption allocation, even that portion of it which is earmarked for loan repayment.
However, she also notes that selectivity is likely to mean that ' benefits earmarked for the poor are likely to be poor benefits '.
The cash may be earmarked for feast money for weddings and deaths, or used for personal purposes.
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