0 present 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.
Earmarking of financial resources to subsidize environmental investments is controversial, and the pros and cons need to be weighed in each specific case.
Earmarking of charge revenues can be phased out as pollution control comes to be accepted as part of the normal costs of running a business.
From an efficiency perspective, earmarking has one important drawback.
This earmarking proved extremely structuring as regards material standards, teacher density, opening hours etc. of the day-care centres.
Earmarking and transfers in kind are often used to encourage investment in the biodiversity stock or in information about it.
Of the oranges which went to a certain area there was a special earmarking given to one multiple store.
No claim even on the survivor's benefit pro rata with the original earmarking would be open to the "notional", displaced widow.
The security for the credit was the earmarking of steel billets held under letters of trust at the four producing works.
