- present participle of earmark.
earmarking
Example Sentences
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At the U.N., the Trump administration has begun to channel aid money through a single department established to manage emergencies, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, earmarking $3.8 billion so far.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
The company, according to Reuters, is earmarking as much as 30% of shares for retail investors and scheduling a meeting with 1,500 of them at an event in June, once its IPO roadshow kicks off.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 8, 2026
In the Budget it said it would raise the age limit to cover under-25s, earmarking £725m for the scheme over the next three years.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2025
But starting in the mid-2000s under President George W. Bush, the U.S. began earmarking federal dollars for dioxin remediation in Vietnam to clean up the contamination sites and the two nations’ troubled relationship.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2025
To conclude a separate peace with that Power is become a pressing, and would also be a feasible, task were it not that this earmarking of Constantinople for Russia constitutes an impassable barrier.
From England and Germany by William Morris Hughes
