0 past simple and past participle of earmark
1 to keep or intend something for a particular purpose:
Five billion dollars of this year's budget is already earmarked for hospital improvements.
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.
This latter measure includes adjustments for earmarked government subsidies and other real financial investment activities on the part of households.
To make such an expansion realistic the central government increased the use of earmarked grants.
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 '.
