carve out

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verb

1. establish or create through painstaking effort
- She carved out a reputation among her male colleagues
• Hypernyms:
create
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. remove from a larger whole
- the new start-up company carved out a large chunk of the market within a year
• Hypernyms:
remove, take, take away, withdraw
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something