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carve up

verb, noun — 4 senses

carve up

verbalso spelled carve-up
1

To cut into pieces.

2

Country, Location, Region Usually To divide or dismember, separate into parts

  • The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I.

carve-up

noun
1

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

2

Slang The distribution of something, as of money or booty.

  • In the colonial carve-up that followed, lines were drawn between the port cities of Mombasa and Dar es Salaam and the island of Zanzibar.2012, The Economist, The Swahili coast: Contagion of discontent:
  • "RMT will not sit back while this carve-up of the rail network is cooked up in company boardrooms. [...]".2021 September 8, “RMT on "war footing" in response to workforce cutback threats”, in RAIL, number 939, page 15:

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — authors: page histories for carve up and carve-up.