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# earmark

«earmark» in Mova's school dictionary: **To set money or something aside for a special purpose:…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (earmark, earmarks, earmarked, earmarking); noun (an earmark, earmarks)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (verb) To set money or something aside for a special purpose: The money is earmarked for a new playground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earmark/#m1)

2) (noun) A mark cut or tagged on a farm animal's ear to show who owns it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earmark/#m2)

3) (noun) A sign or feature that shows what something is: It has all the earmarks of a good book. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earmark/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In money problems «earmarked» money is kept for one purpose and cannot be spent on anything else; on farms sheep and cattle have earmarks. Phrases: «earmarked for», «have all the earmarks of».

### examples

- The school earmarked $500 for new books. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earmark/#x1)
- This field is earmarked for a new park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earmark/#x2)
- The farmer checked the sheep's earmarks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earmark/#x3)
- The plan has all the earmarks of success. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earmark/#x4)
- We earmarked Saturday for cleaning the garage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earmark/#x5)
- Of $100, $30 is earmarked for food, so $70 is left for other things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earmark/#x6)

### note

Regular verb. Formal-ish; casual speech says «set aside» or «put by». In maths, earmarked money must be subtracted from the total before you work out what is free to spend.

### In the corpora

- ["Earmarks" means money set aside for a politician's pet local projects, favourite schemes in his own area (US).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «earmark» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earmark/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.