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carve out
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As a verb, carve out means establish or create through painstaking effort.
Meanings of carve out
2 meaningsverb
Establish or create through painstaking effort
“She carved out a reputation among her male colleagues”
Remove from a larger whole
“the new start-up company carved out a large chunk of the market within a year”
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).