Definition of Earmarks

1. Verb. (third-person singular of earmark) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Earmarks

1. earmark [v] - See also: earmark

Lexicographical Neighbors of Earmarks

early seral species
early spider orchid
early stage breast cancer
early syphilis
early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
early wake-robin
early warning radar
early warning system
early winter cress
earlyish
earlywood
earlywoods
earmark
earmarked
earmarking
earmarks (current term)
earmold
earmolds
earmould
earmoulds
earmuff
earmuffed
earmuffs
earn
earn a living
earn one's keep
earned
earned media
earned run
earned run average

Literary usage of Earmarks

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Self-surveys by Teacher-training Schools by William Harvey Allen, Carroll Gardner Pearse (1917)
"earmarks of Efficiency and Progress BECAUSE the purpose of teacher-training schools is to give instruction, no self-survey will accomplish much which does ..."

2. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1921)
"The earmarks of monopoly: size, profits, discriminating prices, 460 — Sec. 8. Legislation in the United States. The act of 1890 and its enforcement. ..."

3. Physics by Ernest Fox Nichols (1907)
"... which bear no observable earmarks to reveal the kind of matter out of which they come. Whatever their source they are always the same. ..."

4. Criminal Types by Vincent Myron Masten (1922)
"CRIMINAL TYPES TYPAL earmarks Criminal types there are, but there is no one criminal type. Closely-allied criminous expression is vastly different as to ..."

5. Criminal Types by Vincent Myron Masten (1922)
"CRIMINAL TYPES TYPAL earmarks Criminal types there are, but there is no one criminal type. Closely-allied criminous expression is vastly different as to ..."

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