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Wed 12 Jan, 2011 08:55 pm
At the beginning of the year, the system for which I worked had agreed to pay teachers $100 for each accumulated sick day they had at retirement. By the time taxes were carved out, I was left with about $5,000; another hunk of cash to go toward the effort.
I wonder whether "carve out" here means "exist" or "abolish"?
@PennyChan,
It literally means "cut out", in this case it means "removed". The author might have had $6,000 in pay but then $1000 was removed for taxes leaving $5000.
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