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earmark

US /ˈɪr.mɑːrk/
UK /ˈɪə.mɑːk/

Verb

Zweckbindung

to keep or intend something for a particular purpose:

Beispiel:
Five billion dollars of this year's budget is already earmarked for hospital improvements.

Substantiv

Zweckbindung

in the US, a legal request that is added to a law to make sure that an amount of money from the US Congress’s budget is spent on a particular project:

Beispiel:
Members of the Party used the 111th Congress to request hundreds of earmarks that added more than $1 billion to the federal budget.