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: --
From an efficiency perspective, earmarking has one important drawback.
This cost will become the focus of attention if eco-forestry and directly subsidized forestry projects make significant inroads into areas earmarked for industrial logging concessions.
Substantial financial resources have been ' earmarked ' to support new local health and social service collaborations.
Of that initial $99 million, $38 million was earmarked for dissemination of clinical practice guidelines and medical effectiveness research.
Opposition groups charged that these farms were earmarked for government cronies instead of people who really needed land.
The revenue from the levy is earmarked for environmental protection.
Some of the large sums earmarked for this task existed only on paper.
The cash may be earmarked for feast money for weddings and deaths, or used for personal purposes.