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词汇 earmarking
释义 earmarking
present participle ofearmark
earmark
verb[ Toften passive ]
uk /ˈɪə.mɑːk/ us /ˈɪr.mɑːrk/
to keep or intend something for a particular purpose: 划拨(款项);指定…作特定用途
be earmarked forFive billion dollars of this year's budget is already earmarked for hospital improvements.已从今年的预算中划拨出50亿美元专门用于改善医院设施。
Synonyms
allocate
apportionformal
appropriateformal
reserve
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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

Examples of earmarking


earmarking

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


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.
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No claim even on the survivor's benefit pro rata with the original earmarking would be open to the "notional", displaced widow.
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The security for the credit was the earmarking of steel billets held under letters of trust at the four producing works.
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I hope that my noble friend will resist the blandishments of the arguments for earmarking the taxes for particular museums or galleries.
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We think that that is best done through broader-based child support maintenance rather than the earmarking of a pension.
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I am talking about the earmarking of key personnel.
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I should also like to see an earmarking of funds especially for women's literacy programmes.
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They want it because it is simpler than the existing arrangement, namely earmarking.
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To begin with the school market programme; we propose earmarking an additional 10.3 million for this.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
It must provide the regions with support for their projects and not consist of top-down policy, in the way that this earmarking mechanism currently does.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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