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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.

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Examples for "earmarks"
Examples for "earmarks"
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At times, tragedies have all the earmarks of burlesque, he told himself.
Purity of blood
2
Truman had decided that Donovan's plan had the earmarks of a Gestapo.
Legacy of ashes: the history of the cia
3
The one on the left had all the earmarks of a veteran.
Changer of Worlds
4
Alaska got the money in the end, but the earmarks were lifted.
Reuters
5
To Mrs. Singleton Corey these things bore all the earmarks of tragedy.
The Lookout Man
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The earmark for the project, in the southeast part of Alaska, was later rescinded.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
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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
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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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Translations for earmark
Portuguese
reservar
Earmark through the time