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carve up

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. divide, split, split up, separate, dissever, carve upverb

    separate into parts or portions

    "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"

Wiktionary

  1. carve upnoun

    The act or instance of dishonestly prearranging the result of a competition.

  2. carve upnoun

    The distribution of something, as of money or booty.

  3. carve upverb

    To cut into pieces.

  4. carve upverb

    To divide or dismember, separate into parts

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  1. carve up

    "Carve up" is an idiomatic phrase that generally refers to dividing something into several parts, often in a way that is seen as unfair or unjust. It can refer to physical objects, territories, resources, or even abstract concepts like rights or power. This term can have negative connotations, implying someone taking an excessive portion or dividing it to their own advantage.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of carve up in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of carve up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of carve up in a Sentence

  1. Mahmoud Faqih:

    The politicians have always been in conflict on how to carve up the cake. This obstructs any reforms and reveals them as a bunch of liars to international opinion, the wide scope of these protests is evidence of the buildup of the crisis and that it is rubbing salt in the citizens' wounds.

  2. National Development and Reform Commission:

    (The firms) created monopolies by agreeing to raise sales prices and to artificially carve up the market.

  3. Sergei Mitrokhin:

    One must understand that in Crimea, in essence, a gangster regime has been established under the protection of Moscow, former criminals have come to power, and have started to carve up the property.

  4. Saul Kavonic:

    It's going to come down to how you carve up that value pie. Those are the negotiations that will have to take place in order for that joint development to occur.

  5. Niklas Granholm:

    The U.S. has realized that they cannot leave the Russians and Chinese to carve up the Arctic as they see fit.


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