0 to make sure that a sum of money is protected and only used for a particular purpose; to protect a particular area of spending so that there is no reduction in the amount spent on it: --
The following ring-fenced areas account for around 46 percent of total departmental spending.
Over £500 million was ring-fenced for improvements to the transport system.
1 something that protects a sum of money or area of spending so that it cannot be reduced or is kept separate from other amounts or areas: --
The company established a ring-fence around losses dating from 2012.
2 to protect an amount of money so that it can only be used for a particular purpose: --
Secondly, in any event, how could we in practice ring-fence the arts?
The other recipe is to keep the steel workers at work, within a ring-fence of import controls, living off the taxpayer.
In the light of all that, we need to find a system that will ring-fence and structure the funding of higher education.
The development proposed will ring-fence the whole site with two-metre high fencing excluding all except paying guests.
To ring-fence one area—the criminal defence service—and exclude it from this type of consideration is utterly unrealistic.
For example, will we for ever ring-fence such matters as combating tax fraud against public finances?
There are no plans to ring-fence funds for cost rent schemes within these allocations.
We must ring-fence it and ensure that it is spent properly.
