carve-up
See also: carve up
English
editNoun
edit- (informal) The act or instance of dishonestly prearranging the result of a competition.
- (slang) The distribution of something, as of money or booty.
- 2012, The Economist, The Swahili coast: Contagion of discontent[1]:
- 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.
- 2021 September 8, “RMT on "war footing" in response to workforce cutback threats”, in RAIL, number 939, page 15:
- "RMT will not sit back while this carve-up of the rail network is cooked up in company boardrooms. [...]".