to carve out a career
1carve 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… …
2carve 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… …
3carve out — phr verb Carve out is used with these nouns as the object: ↑career, ↑exception, ↑niche, ↑path, ↑role, ↑slice …
4carve out — verb a) To hollow by carving. b) To create (a reputation, chance, role, rank, career, victory) by hard work …
5ˌcarve ˈout sth (for yourself) — phrasal verb to develop a career or position for yourself by working hard …
6career — 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; …
7carve — 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… …
8carve — 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 …
9carve — [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:… …
10carve — [ 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… …
