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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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Meanwhile he is paying court to Isabelle over the weekend, hoping to carve out his own share of her family's fortune.
Living in the shadow of Newgate Prison, Sweeney Todd tries to carve out a quiet and simple life as a barber.
Depending on the atomic species, ion beams can be used to dope semiconductors even as they carve out circuit patterns.
Our country has the pride of having master craftsmen who carve out exquisite products with their deft hands.
The first thing you have to do is carve out steel dies for the obverse and the reverse of the coin.
We're trying to take a scalpel and carve out this very small percentage of the people that are gaming the system.

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