Usually means: Allocations for specific local projects.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word earmarks:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. earmarks: Merriam-Webster
  2. earmarks: Collins English Dictionary
  3. earmarks: Vocabulary.com
  4. Earmarks, earmarks: Wordnik
  5. earmarks: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. earmarks: Wiktionary
  7. earmarks: Dictionary.com
  8. earmarks: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. earmarks: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. earmarks: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. earmarks: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. earmarks: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (earmark)

verb:  (transitive) To mark (sheep or other animals) by slitting the ear.
verb:  (transitive, by extension) To specify or set aside for a particular purpose, to allocate.
verb:  (transitive, finance, UK) To designate part of a pension to be payable to the holder's former spouse or partner at its time of payment.
noun:  A mark or deformation of the ear of an animal, intended to indicate ownership.
noun:  (US, politics) The designation of specific projects in appropriations of funding for general programs.
noun:  A mark for identification; a distinguishing mark.
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