meaning of earmarked?

Answer 1

Cattle are marked on their ears. Sometimes with a notch. Thus "earmarked" designates ownership or designation for shipping or something else.

Answer 2

Anything that is identified by tagging with a number or code or color that indicates to the owner or persons in charge what category, department, section, a particular thing is designated for and where it is from. The term came from cutting or "nicking" a piece of flesh out of a cow's ear to designate who's herd it belonged in or if it was for sale, or whatever the owner decided the mark would mean, whatever connotation he had for the mark, so it is said "this cow is earmarked for the slaughter house" or this money is earmarked for the fireman's fund" =set aside for or reserved for.

Answer 3

n.

1. An identifying feature or characteristic: a novel with all the earmarks of success.
2. An identifying mark on the ear of a domestic animal.


tr.v. ear·marked, ear·mark·ing, ear·marks

1. To reserve or set aside for a particular purpose. See Synonyms at allocate.
2. To mark in an identifying or distinctive way.
3. To mark the ear of (a domestic animal) for identification.

Answer 4

Earmark is a congressional provision that directs approved funds to be spent on specific projects or that directs specific exemptions from taxes or mandated fees. Essentially its a way for congress or the senate to override president, and make sure the money get spent on a specific project. When you got a democrat controlled congress and senate and you got a democrat president, who just listens to those in congress and senate and when he appoints Biden to oversee the allocation fo the funds, there really is no need for earmarks. If you got a direct line into the ear of the president there is no need for an earmark. So yeah at this point earmarks are pretty pointless. Its more a tool democrats in congress and senate used to override bush's allocation powers.

Answer 5

Figurative: to have a special mark, quality, or feature that gives information about a person or thing.

e.g Quality education is earmarked by success in professional life.

Answer 6

to pull out, possibly of a stack of papers, or fold over the corner in a book. The term is meant to describing showing importance of a page or document for later reference.

The origin is that a folded corner in a book looks like a pigs ear.

Answer 7

it meant-distinguishing mark.