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What does carve out mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word carve out? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To hollow by carving.
  2. (idiomatic) To create (a reputation, chance, role, rank, career, victory) by hard work, or as if by cutting.
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Negotiations will be intense, but the president could carve out a victory that will win the support of autoworkers and farmers.
Our country has the pride of having master craftsmen who carve out exquisite products with their deft hands.
Living in the shadow of Newgate Prison, Sweeney Todd tries to carve out a quiet and simple life as a barber.
Greedy and acquisitive, he set his sights on this land in order to carve out a feudal domain for himself.
Depending on the atomic species, ion beams can be used to dope semiconductors even as they carve out circuit patterns.
That is to say, we want to carve out a place for conversation, dialogue, dialectic, and debate.

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