labrar

v. work; shape, fashion; carve, hew; farm, till

= till, carve out, carve, hew.
Ex: Chapter 5 will focus on staffing issues and opportunities -- the roots and substance of a properly tilled organizational garden.
Ex: In consequence, deafened people have to carve out a sense of identity by developing associations & communicative strategies.
Ex: What the presidency needs is a job description; not one carved in a tablet of stone and certainly not one which would form all future presidents in the same sanitised mould.
Ex: Oak was shaped by splitting with wooden wedges, and by hewing with axes or adzes.
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* labrarse = hew.
* labrarse un porvenir = make + Posesivo + way in the world.