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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Members from all three tribes were divvied up into two teams for the season’s first reward challenge. —

Nick Caruso, TVLine, 16 Oct. 2024 That money would be divvied up into six areas: $500,604 for the Concordia 27 development on the near west side that will offer affordable housing units, health and wellness services, and workforce training opportunities. —

Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 9 Oct. 2024 Charity Navigator for some years has offered a giving basket option that allows Americans to make a single donation that then gets divvied up between charities of their choosing. —

Felix Salmon, Axios, 4 Oct. 2024 That amount, the moderators explained, would be divvied up among pairs of participants, each of which would get seventy-three green stickers worth two thousand euros each. —

Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for divvy