to carve out a career

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• carve out — 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… …   Useful english dictionary

• carve out — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms carve out : present tense I/you/we/they carve out he/she/it carves out present participle carving out past tense carved out past participle carved out to develop a career or position for yourself by working… …   English dictionary

• carve out — phr verb Carve out is used with these nouns as the object: ↑career, ↑exception, ↑niche, ↑path, ↑role, ↑slice …   Collocations dictionary

• carve out — verb a) To hollow by carving. b) To create (a reputation, chance, role, rank, career, victory) by hard work …   Wiktionary

• ˌcarve ˈout sth (for yourself) — phrasal verb to develop a career or position for yourself by working hard …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• career — n. 1) to carve out, make a career (for oneself) 2) to enter on; launch a career 3) to abandon, give up one s career 4) to cut short smb. s career (the accident cut short her career) 5) a brilliant, distinguished; checkered; promising; successful; …   Combinatory dictionary

• carve — verb 1 (I, T) to cut a large piece of cooked meat into smaller pieces using a big knife: Carve the lamb into slices and arrange in a hot serving dish. 2 (T) to cut shapes out of solid wood or stone: Michelangelo carved this figure from a single… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• carve — verb (carved; carving) Etymology: Middle English kerven, from Old English ceorfan; akin to Old High German kerban to notch, Greek graphein to scratch, write Date: before 12th century transitive verb 1. to cut with care or precision …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• carve — [ka:v US ka:rv] v ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(make object or pattern)¦ 2¦(cut something into a surface)¦ 3¦(cut meat)¦ 4¦(job/position/life)¦ 5¦(water/wind)¦ 6¦(reduce something)¦ Phrasal verbs 　carve somebody/something<=>up ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ [: Old English; Origin:… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• carve — [ karv ] verb * 1. ) intransitive or transitive to make an object by cutting it from stone or wood: He carved a statue of her out of an old log. a ) transitive to produce a pattern or writing on the surface of something by cutting it: She carved… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• carve — ► VERB 1) cut into or shape (a hard material) to produce an object or design. 2) produce (a design or object) by carving. 3) cut (cooked meat) into slices for eating. 4) (carve out) develop (a career, reputation, etc.) through painstaking effort …   English terms dictionary