earmark

1. 1.

   give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause

   “I will earmark this money for your research”

   “She sets aside time for meditation every day”

   Synonymsallowappropriateset asidereserve

   Broaderassign

Other forms of earmark

plural

earmarks·

past tense

earmarked·

present participle

earmarking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about earmark

What does earmark mean?

earmark means "identification mark on the ear of a domestic animal". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in earmark?

earmark has 2 syllables: ear-mark. The stress falls on "ear". In IPA it is /ˈɪɹˌmɑɹk/.

What is another word for earmark?

Close synonyms include hallmark, trademark, stylemark, allow, appropriate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is earmark a common word?

earmark is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with earmark?

17 words rhyme with earmark. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.