reserve

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Keeping and storing things
appropriate
aside
bank
bogart
buffer
capacitance
cling
dump
keep (something/someone) back
kept
lay something aside
lay something down
lay something in
lodge
standby
stash
stockpile
stockpiling
storage
trap

earmark | American Dictionary

earmark
verb[ T ]
us/ˈɪər·mɑrk/
to intend something for a particular purpose:
Ten thousand dollars of this year’s budget is earmarked for the renovation of the building.

earmark | Business English

earmark
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈɪəmɑːk/us
LAW, POLITICS US
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:
Members of the Party used the 111th Congress to request hundreds of earmarks that added more than $1 billion to the federal budget.
Earmarks often result in the expenditure of large sums of taxpayer money to help a limited number of people.
LAW, POLITICS US
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.
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.
earmark
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈɪəmɑːk/us
to keep or plan to use something for a particular purpose:
earmark sth for sthThe money had been earmarked for airport improvements.
earmark sth as sthAfrica was earmarked as a growth area.
earmark sth to do sthAround 100 stores are earmarked to be sold.

Examples of earmark

earmark
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.
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 '.
The cash may be earmarked for feast money for weddings and deaths, or used for personal purposes.
Some of the large sums earmarked for this task existed only on paper.
The revenue from the levy is earmarked for environmental protection.
Opposition groups charged that these farms were earmarked for government cronies instead of people who really needed land.
Of that initial $99 million, $38 million was earmarked for dissemination of clinical practice guidelines and medical effectiveness research.
Substantial financial resources have been ' earmarked ' to support new local health and social service collaborations.
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.
From an efficiency perspective, earmarking has one important drawback.
The degree to which dollars are effectively earmarked for particular popularly acceptable purposes is relevant to a program's political support.
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