carve out

Verb
  1. Establish or create through painstaking effort (synset 201762370)
    "She carved out a reputation among her male colleagues"
    is a type of: create - bring into existence
  2. Remove from a larger whole (synset 200588846)
    "the new start-up company carved out a large chunk of the market within a year"
    is a type of: remove, take, take away, withdraw - remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract

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