Earmark vs Embezzle - What's the difference?
earmark | embezzle |
To mark (as of sheep) by slitting the ear.
(by extension) To specify or set aside for a particular purpose.
A mark or deformation of the ear of an animal, intended to indicate ownership.
(US, politics) The designation of specific projects in appropriations of funding for general programs.
A mark for identification; a distinguishing mark.
* Wharton
* Burrow
(legal, business) To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works.
* 1903, , Twelve Stories and a Dream
* 1861,
As verbs the difference between earmark and embezzle
is that earmark is to mark (as of sheep) by slitting the ear while embezzle is (legal|business) to steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works.As a noun earmark
is a mark or deformation of the ear of an animal, intended to indicate ownership.earmark
English
(wikipedia earmark)Verb
(en verb)- You can donate to the organization as a whole, or you can earmark your contribution for a particular project.
Noun
(en noun)- Money is said to have no earmark .
- A set of intellectual ideas have earmarks upon them, no tokens of a particular proprietor.
Coordinate terms
* (US politics) phonemarkReferences
* http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?earmarkSee also
* expenditure * porkbarrelembezzle
English
Verb
(en-verb)- You waste your education in burglary. You should do one of two things. Either you should forge or you should embezzle'. For my own part, I ' embezzle .
- You let Dunsey have it, sir? And how long have you been so thick with Dunsey that you must collogue with him to embezzle my money?