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carveouts

carveouts is the plural 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

Questions about carveouts

What is carveouts the plural of?
Carveouts is the plural of carveout.

Words near carveouts in the dictionary

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

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