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Meanings of earmark in English

Catalan
marca distintiva
Spanish
marca

A distinctive characteristic or attribute.

        marca distintiva
        Portuguese
        reservar
        Catalan
        destinar
        Spanish
        destinar

        To assign a resource to a particular person or cause.

              reservar

              Making of small cuttings on the ears of farm animals.

                    Usage of earmark in English
                    1
                    There was absolutely not the slightest earmark of the Negro about them.
                    The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and S...
                    2
                    For example, some members of Congress post some earmark requests online.
                    Reuters
                    3
                    A third option was to earmark revenues from existing carbon markets.
                    Reuters
                    4
                    These minor obligations do not earmark more than an hour in the day.
                    First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life
                    5
                    Catch those yearling ewes with the wether earmark and change to the shoe-string.
                    The Fighting Shepherdess
                    6
                    Abandon the R1 trillion nuclear deal and earmark additional funding for education opportunities instead.
                    The South African
                    7
                    We urge you to earmark a greater proportion of foreign assistance to women's organizations.
                    Feminist dot com
                    8
                    But attempts to earmark it for the community had been stopped by red tape.
                    Radio NZ
                    9
                    We are going to earmark a burial site for children.
                    Reuters
                    10
                    The earmark for the project, in the southeast part of Alaska, was later rescinded.
                    Reuters
                    11
                    The least earmark would have turned the scale, but he could not find it.
                    The House Behind the Cedars
                    12
                    Help clients earmark the assets they'd like to donate .
                    Reuters
                    13
                    Nearly half of last year's earmark dollars were included in the Pentagon's spending bill.
                    Reuters
                    14
                    After the 2011 earmark ban, evidence of clout disappeared.
                    Reuters
                    15
                    Well, the Four-Bar-M earmark is a crop and an under-bit right and a swallow-fork left.
                    When A Man's A Man
                    16
                    The notion that you can earmark certain coins as tainted is an unpractical individualist superstition.
                    Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics
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                    Portuguese
                    reservar
                    Earmark through the time