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A -up is an arrangement in which two or more people, companies, or governments divide something among themselves even though it is wrong — they split the prize and leave out the people who should have had a say. You hear it in news and : a -up of land after a war, or of a market so each company keeps its piece and nobody has to compete. The tidy word would be sharing; the real feeling is they helped themselves. It is informal, a bit sharp, and mostly British. There is a verb too, to something up, with the same idea. At the dinner table, a roast is just cutting meat; a -up is the cheating kind of splitting.
組成carve + up. The noun comes from the phrasal verb to carve something up — cutting a whole into pieces for yourselves.
同家族的字
- carvethe first half; here it means cutting something into shares
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
carve-upnoun
- 1
informalThe act or instance of dishonestly prearranging the result of a competition.
- 2
slangThe distribution of something, as of money or booty.
- In the colonial carve-up that followed, lines were drawn between the port cities of Mombasa and Dar es Salaam and the island of Zanzibar.
- "RMT will not sit back while this carve-up of the rail network is cooked up in company boardrooms. [...]".
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。