divvy

verb

div·vy ˈdi-vē

divvied; divvying; divvies

: divide, share

divvy a pie

Between now and then, managing the divestiture will eat up much of Allen's time—he must divvy tens of billions of dollars in assets …—

David Kirkpatrick

Instead of divvying the spoils of a $12-$18 CD sale, labels, artists and songwriters are vying for nickels and dimes from 99 cent downloads.—

Brian Garrity

—usually used with up

We divvied up the chores.

Money is easier to divvy up than property, …—

Susan E. Kuhn

When the time comes to divvy up the school funding pie, maintenance departments wait patiently in line for their slice of resources.—

Mike Kennedy

Early evidence suggests there has been a significant shift in how fiscal responsibilities are divvied up among the federal government, and state and local governments.—

Grant A. Driessen and Joseph S. Hughes

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Pack lunch the night before—and divvy it up wisely. —

Caroline Tien, SELF, 1 Jan. 2025 In 2014, Patterson also donated $1 million to bookstores, divvied up into prizes of $15,000 per store. —

Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 22 Dec. 2024 Because of the way that the S & P 500 money is divvied up, the share base becomes overwhelmingly index-fund based and the index fund shareholders do not sell. —

Jim Cramer, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2024 There are no terms to be agreed on, no spheres of influence to be divvied between them. —

Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 16 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for divvy