earmark Definition på svenska

• 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: --

  • Earmarks often result in the expenditure of large sums of taxpayer money to help a limited number of people.

  • Members of the Party used the 111th Congress to request hundreds of earmarks that added more than $1 billion to the federal budget.

• 3 an amount of money from the US Congress’s budget to be spent on a particular project: --

  • A senator obtained an earmark of $1.5 million last year to deal with a beetle that attacks trees, lawns, and crops.

• 4 a characteristic or feature that is typical of a person or thing: --

  • He said the plan had all the earmarks of an economic disaster because it would increase customer costs.

• 5 to keep or plan to use something for a particular purpose: --

  • earmark sth to do sth Around 100 stores are earmarked to be sold.

  • earmark sth as sth Africa was earmarked as a growth area.

  • earmark sth for sth The money had been earmarked for airport improvements.