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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During Soviet rule, the state parceled out the building’s 12 apartments to people who worked in the nearby Antonov aircraft plant, a perk of Communist times.
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Oleksandra Mykolyshyn, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Others were parceled out to medical training and technology companies, including a few industry giants, that rely on human remains to develop products and teach doctors how to use them.
—Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2024
Individual instructions would be parceled out to the waiting components.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2010
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Kendrick Lamar performs like someone parceling out a secret.
—Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
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Kendrick Lamar performs like someone parceling out a secret.
—Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
The user places little DNA cartridges into the machine and the DNA is automatically inserted into the microbes, which are parceled out into eight plastic syringes that serve as incubators.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Nov. 2016
Adichie, in other words, once excelled at the fundamental novelistic task of parceling out her sympathies and critiques between subjects, never allowing any one character to be wholly in the right or wholly in the wrong.
—Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2025
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.
—Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2025
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Oleksandra Mykolyshyn, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Others were parceled out to medical training and technology companies, including a few industry giants, that rely on human remains to develop products and teach doctors how to use them.
—Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2024
Individual instructions would be parceled out to the waiting components.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2010
Today’s Paper | Subscribe See more on: Metropolitan Detention Center (Brooklyn, NY), Sean Combs
Explore the World of Hip-Hop
Kendrick Lamar performs like someone parceling out a secret.
—Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
Today’s Paper | Subscribe Explore the World of Hip-Hop
Kendrick Lamar performs like someone parceling out a secret.
—Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
The user places little DNA cartridges into the machine and the DNA is automatically inserted into the microbes, which are parceled out into eight plastic syringes that serve as incubators.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Nov. 2016
Adichie, in other words, once excelled at the fundamental novelistic task of parceling out her sympathies and critiques between subjects, never allowing any one character to be wholly in the right or wholly in the wrong.
—Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2025
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.
—Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2025
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“Parcel out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parcel%20out. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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