parcelling

[ UK /pˈɑːsəlɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan
    the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is based on the relative population of each state
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How To Use parcelling In A Sentence

  • Nothing of my own to show today - busy day with a cup of tea with friends in the morning, then my daytime quilt group and in the afternoon I spent a lot of time reading email and parcelling up swaps and things to go in the post - amazing how much time that can take. Thursday stuff
  • He runs to new and ever-more-humiliating confrontations across half the island in a pair of deeply emasculating, ever-flapping deck shoes, suffering insult from his angry, grieving father-in-law Robert Forster, and psychic injury when he learns that his cuckold will likely make a mint in fees from parcelling out Matt's land once it's sold. Alexander Payne's The Descendants – not just for the kids, thankfully
  • Unlike deferred annuities, which people use to save for retirement, income annuities are for parceling out money already accumulated.
  • While some restaurants charge extra for parcelling, the rest provide parcel facility as an add-on service.
  • A real friend, and she had a feeling he was parceling her out more work to show her he looked on her as a full-fledged officer. THE WAILING WIND
  • Given the promise of instantaneous diffusion we can move to a system of exchanging intellectual work for money, instead of parcelling it into discrete copies whose price is protected by an anachronistic monopoly. P2P: Saving the world
  • Each present must be brand new and unwrapped - this will help care managers to organise the gifts before parcelling them up and giving them to the children.
  • Lehman's were 'parcelling' this debt and selling it on with the AAA rating. The Guardian World News
  • They didn't want the federal government parceling out food supplies.
  • The parcelling up of voters will be based on the electoral roll as it stands next month, and the 3.5 million are unlikely be registered in time. 3.5m voters missing from electoral register
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