parcel out
phrasal verb
parceled out or parcelled out; parceling out or parcelling out; parcels out
: to divide or share (something) among different people, groups, etc.
The money was parceled out to local charities.
They plan to parcel the tickets out in a lottery.
We need to stop parceling out the blame for this problem and start working on a solution.
Examples of parcel out in a Sentence
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Once the heart of a massive, 15,000-acre property owned in the 19th century by a man named Nicolas Den, it had been parceled out in a haphazard way over the years and then partially reassembled, leaving Himovitz with a piece of land whose shape resembles an upside-down boot.
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Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2025
The devices will be judged on both diagnostic accuracy and consumer experience in the second half of 2015, and the $10 million in prize money will be parceled out to the top three teams in 2016.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Aug. 2014
Over the long term, parceling out programs like Title I and IDEA to other departments — each with their own functions and priorities — could weaken those programs’ ability to serve the high-needs students they were created to support, Wong said.
—Anna North, Vox, 4 Mar. 2025
Within a few generations—through which passed the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation and the Great Depression—the federal government bought the plantation and parceled out the land to the remaining Black Pettways.
—Kaila Philo, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2025
That extra set of cuts has not been parceled out to individual committees.
—Margot Sanger-Katz, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
Putin has long prided himself on serving as the system’s arbiter, parceling out morsels to various clans while never elevating one over another.
—Joshua Yaffa, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2015
Some jobs were parceled out to remote workers; other, simpler tasks were automated by Invisible’s engineers.
—Iain Martin, Forbes, 4 Feb. 2025
Biden's cautious strategy to parcel out weapons, and his late surge of policy changes, have drawn criticism in Kyiv and from Ukrainian troops.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 28 Nov. 2024
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Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2025
The devices will be judged on both diagnostic accuracy and consumer experience in the second half of 2015, and the $10 million in prize money will be parceled out to the top three teams in 2016.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Aug. 2014
Over the long term, parceling out programs like Title I and IDEA to other departments — each with their own functions and priorities — could weaken those programs’ ability to serve the high-needs students they were created to support, Wong said.
—Anna North, Vox, 4 Mar. 2025
Within a few generations—through which passed the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation and the Great Depression—the federal government bought the plantation and parceled out the land to the remaining Black Pettways.
—Kaila Philo, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2025
That extra set of cuts has not been parceled out to individual committees.
—Margot Sanger-Katz, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
Putin has long prided himself on serving as the system’s arbiter, parceling out morsels to various clans while never elevating one over another.
—Joshua Yaffa, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2015
Some jobs were parceled out to remote workers; other, simpler tasks were automated by Invisible’s engineers.
—Iain Martin, Forbes, 4 Feb. 2025
Biden's cautious strategy to parcel out weapons, and his late surge of policy changes, have drawn criticism in Kyiv and from Ukrainian troops.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 28 Nov. 2024
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“Parcel out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parcel%20out. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.
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