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carveout

carveout noun: the selling of a minority stake in a subsidiary by a parent company; a partial spinoff.

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
    • Instead, G.O.P. lawmakers have sent carefully worded letters to agency heads and privately lobbied their personal connections within the White House to make piecemeal carveouts for their preferred projects and programs.2025 March 28, Maya C. Miller, “Forgoing Oversight, Republicans Resort to Personal Appeals to Head Off DOGE Cuts”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Forms of carveout

pluralcarveouts
alternative formcarve-out

Origin of carveout

Deverbal from carve out.

Questions about carveout

What does carveout mean?
Carveout means the selling of a minority stake in a subsidiary by a parent company; a partial spinoff.
What part of speech is carveout?
Carveout is a noun.
What is the plural of carveout?
The plural of carveout is carveouts.

Words near carveout in the dictionary

  1. carvels
  2. carven
  3. carvene
  4. carveol
  5. carveols
  6. carveout
  7. carveouts
  8. carver
  9. Carver County
  10. Carverian
  11. carveries

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