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  • noun The selling of a minority stake in a subsidiary by a parent company; a partial spinoff

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Examples

  • It said any immunity might also include a "carveout" of some routes that would not be included in any cooperation.

    The Daily Star > News Feed AFP 2010

  • It said any immunity might also include a "carveout" of some routes that would not be included in any cooperation.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010

  • It said any immunity might also include a "carveout" of some routes that would not be included in any cooperation.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010

  • It said any immunity might also include a "carveout" of some routes that would not be included in any cooperation.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2009

  • This appears to this reader to include a classic loophole: the "carveout".

    Autism Hub 2008

  • The Directive applies to companies as well as governments, and even to individuals, except for a carveout for exclusively personal/domestic activities like keeping an address book.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • One such surprise is found on page 158 of the legislation, which appears to create a carveout for senior staff members in the leadership offices and on congressional committees, essentially exempting those senior Democrat staffers who wrote the bill from being forced to purchase health care plans in the same way as other Americans.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Legal Action and Political Action as a Two-Track Strategy for Opposing Obamacare 2010

  • Imagine the PR for Fatah if they were able to announce a 20 year settlement freeze (as in no increase in footprint, and no new construction of buildings in existing land), a token chunk of East Jerusalem, and full control over the temple mount (with some carveout for the Wall).

    Matthew Yglesias » The Right Enemies 2009

  • Another disturbing aspect of the Google-Verizon proposal is its so-called "wireless carveout" -- essentially saying that mobile Internet would not be subject to network neutrality rules.

    James Rucker: Google, Verizon, and You 2010

  • Another disturbing aspect of the Google-Verizon proposal is its so-called "wireless carveout" -- essentially saying that mobile Internet would not be subject to network neutrality rules.

    James Rucker: Google, Verizon, and You 2010

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