carve-up

plural carve-ups

1. informalThe act or instance of dishonestly prearranging the result of a competition.
2. slangThe distribution of something, as of money or booty.

   "RMT will not sit back while this carve-up of the rail network is cooked up in company boardrooms. [...]".

   2021 September 8, “RMT on "war footing" in response to workforce cutback threats”, in RAIL, number 939, page 15

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   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.

   2012, The Economist, The Swahili coast: Contagion of discontent