carve up

phrasal verb

carved up; carving up; carves up

usually disapproving

: to divide something into small parts

The once beautiful countryside has been carved up by developers.

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The group is carving up its operations into four business lines, namely UK, Hong Kong, corporate and institutional banking, and wealth banking. —

Reuters, CNN, 22 Oct. 2024 The Griffins defense got carved up by Serra quarterback Jimmy Butler who completed 15 of 18 passes for 298 yards and three touchdowns. —

Michael Huntley, Orange County Register, 30 Sep. 2024 Think again, as the California Zephyr, the longest route in America crosses through seven states, carving up Colorado’s canyons, then passing into Utah where the sun ignites mesas into flaming towers of rock. —

Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Sep. 2024 The bottom line: Behavioral remedies are more likely than a move to carve up Google into new pieces. —

Scott Rosenberg, Axios, 16 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for carve up