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carve-out

carve-out is the alternative form of carveout.

Meaning of carveout

Noun

carveout (plural carveouts)

  1. The selling of a minority stake in a subsidiary by a parent company; a partial spinoff.
  2. An exception to a legal provision.
    • These laws create special exemptions for farms through statutory and regulatory carveouts.2018, Jacob E. Gersen, Margot J. Pollans, Michael T. Roberts, Food Law and Policy, page 825

Forms of carve-out

pluralcarve-outs

Questions about carve-out

What is carve-out the alternative form of?
Carve-out is the alternative form of carveout.

Words near carve-out in the dictionary

  1. Carvalhos
  2. Carvallo
  3. carve
  4. carve out
  5. carve up
  6. carve-out
  7. carve-outs
  8. carve-up
  9. carve-ups
  10. carveability
  11. carveable

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