ring-fence

verb

1. to assign (money, a grant, fund, etc) to one particular purpose, so as to restrict its use

   to ring-fence a financial allowance

2. to oblige (a person or organization) to use money for a particular purpose

   to ring-fence a local authority

noun

1. an agreement, contract, etc, in which the use of money is restricted to a particular purpose

Example Sentences

We took the path up the valley bottom, and across a grassy shoulder of the park to a small gate in the ring-fence.

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What a man may feel for a fine estate in a ring fence, Beck felt for that isthmus of the kennel which was subject to his broom.

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Three circles of milk bush, one within the other, formed the boma, or ring-fence.

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I wanted a fine country home and a profitable investment within the same ring fence.

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In order to get a ring-fence round his property he bought the Pg 52four intervening triangular fields.

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