ring-fence

verb

to assign (money, a grant, fund, etc) to one particular purpose, so as to restrict its use: to ring-fence a financial allowance
to oblige (a person or organization) to use money for a particular purpose: to ring-fence a local authority

nounring fence

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

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How to use ring-fence in a sentence

We took the path up the valley bottom, and across a grassy shoulder of the park to a small gate in the ring-fence.
The Adventures of Harry Revel | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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.
Lucretia, Complete | Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Three circles of milk bush, one within the other, formed the boma, or ring-fence.
The Discovery of the Source of the Nile | John Hanning Speke
I wanted a fine country home and a profitable investment within the same ring fence.
The Fat of the Land | John Williams Streeter
In order to get a ring-fence round his property he bought the Pg 52four intervening triangular fields.
Amusements in Mathematics | Henry Ernest Dudeney

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