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parcel out
Idioms and Phrases
Divide into parts and distribute, as in She parceled out the remaining candy among the children . This idiom uses parcel in the sense of “divide into small portions.†[Mid-1500s]Example Sentences
He was a prolific writer and he parceled out songs to people that he cared about or was working with.
It is also the entry point to a messy interpersonal conflict that spills out from the classroom and involves decades of family history, which the screenplay slowly parcels out in agonizing, tantalizing drips of information.
He noted that the vast majority of the nation’s 2,000 four-year colleges and universities have not needed to use affirmative action to parcel out coveted seats because they admit most applicants.
A bare-bones framework of an agreement, sketched out on a single sheet of paper, the deal promises $125 million for a journalism fund that will be parceled out to local newsrooms over five years.
The other is coming out of Glasgow, with the old Glasgow Central constituency being broken up and parcelled out among the surrounding city seats.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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