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動詞

carve out (三人称単数 現在形 carves out, 現在分詞 carving out, 過去形および過去分詞形 carved out)

1. To hollow by carving.
2. (idiomatic) To create (a reputation, chance, role, rank, career, victory) by hard work, or as if by cutting.
   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:

     [Macbeth] […] with his brandished steel […] carved out his passage.

   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 23, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:

     Fortunes were carved out of the property of the crown.

   • 2011 February 6, Alistair Magowan, “West Ham 0 - 1 Birmingham”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     The hosts went close on several occasions with Victor Obinna and Robbie Keane impressive in the first half, yet they had trouble carving out many clear openings and the defeat leaves them at the bottom of the Premier League on goal difference, two points from safety.

語源

carve +‎ out, from the verb phrase.

名詞

carveout (複数形 carveouts)

1. The selling of a minority stake in a subsidiary by a parent company; a partial spinoff.
2. (law) An exception to a legal provision.
   • 2018, Jacob E. Gersen; Margot J. Pollans; Michael T. Roberts, Food Law and Policy, page 825:

     These laws create special exemptions for farms through statutory and regulatory carveouts.