English-French translations for carve

découper
Elle ne peut créer des emplois en légiférant pour diminuer les heures de travail, comme si les emplois étaient un gâteau que l'on peut découper et distribuer. It cannot create jobs by legislating to cut working hours, as if jobs were a cake that you carve up and divide between people. Limites encore, et je terminerai sur ce point, car le contrôle est un tout que l'on ne peut pas saucissonner ou découper en tranches. There are more limits - and I shall end on this point - since control is a single entity that we cannot carve or cut up into slices.
graver
sculpter
tailler
Elle doit aussi se tailler une place sur le marché en expansion rapide des technologies de l'environnement. It must also carve itself a niche in the rapidly expanding market of environmental technologies.

To cut
To cut meat in order to serve it
To shape to sculptural effect; to produce by cutting, or to cut into a finished work
To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path
To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan
A carucate

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