earmark 的 2 个定义
- any identifying or distinguishing mark or characteristic: The mayor's statement had all the earmarks of dirty politics.
- a mark of identification made on the ear of an animal to show ownership.
- a provision in a piece of Congressional legislation that directs specified federal funds to specific projects, programs, organizations, or individuals: Lawmakers requested almost 40,000 earmarks worth more than $100 billion directed to their home districts and states.Compare pork barrel.
- to set aside for a specific purpose, use, recipient, etc.: to earmark goods for export.
- to mark with an earmark.
earmark 近义词
signature characteristic
reserve
更多earmark例句
- The Dallas-Fort Worth area is being targeted for the largest collective earmark request in the country, according to a detailed breakdown of overall requests released by the House Appropriations Committee.
- A decade ago, Republicans vehemently opposed a stimulus package from a Democratic president, won an election by making it a focal point and then banned earmarks partly in the name of instituting fiscal responsibility.
- “That clearly I don’t think is a great outcome because the money sits there and we couldn’t move forward just because of the higher cost of the project despite having the earmark in hand,” he said.
- Last week, before Democrats had confirmed their plans, state officials gathered virtually to discuss the return of earmarks.
- Although earmarks might sit untouched, money sometimes can be used for its original purpose.
- Despite the anti-earmark rhetoric in Congress, John Boehner still misses them.
- If those things can be done, I'd happily reward every member of Congress with an earmark of his or her very own.
- Does the Tea Party class know that the earmark-ban game is already over?
- If earmark reform was something that the public understood well enough to hunger for, John McCain would be our president.
- That sense of humor does not lessen but it lightens the gallantry and chivalry which is the earmark of Westerners.
- Every earmark showed that, from the delicate scent of the paper, to the fine, even handwriting.
- That little trick, for example, of beginning sentences with the word “also,” is a familiar earmark of the Kipling school.
- These minor obligations do not earmark more than an hour in the day.
- It wont do, she averred, but Mr. Denby has every earmark of it.