parceled (out)

verb

variants or parcelled (out)
past tense of parcel (out)
as in distributed
to give out (something) to appropriate individuals parceled out the assignments for work on the parish fair

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parceled (out)
  1. distributed
  2. dispensed
  3. divided
  4. handed out
  5. provided
  6. allocated
Verb
  • After four hurricanes struck Florida in 2004, Maines noticed the federal government had distributed millions of dollars in disaster assistance in Miami-Dade County, even though the county had barely been touched by the storms.
    — Sally Kestin, Sun Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Posters started showing up around town, distributed by graphic artist Milton Glaser‘s students at the School of Visual Arts.
    — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of distributed
Verb
  • Sales of prepared food and dispensed beverages also increase slightly less than anticipated.
    — Ananya Chetia, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Saum Poorsaleh, San Diego police public information officer, said his department had issued more than 50 citations at Sunset Cliffs and dispensed about 350 warnings, written and oral, since mid-June.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of dispensed
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  • The large-scale protests might have signaled to Beijing that the Hong Kong public was becoming more politically divided and that Tung was losing control.
    — Kanis Leung, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Like the public writ large, the House of Representatives and the Senate are divided so deeply that Americans don’t have confidence in their ability to make hard choices.
    — Tara Sonenshine, Baltimore Sun, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of divided
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  • The annual awards, which recognize the most absurd research science can offer, were handed out at a ceremony in Zurich on Thursday.
    — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 4 Sep. 2026
  • In addition to a multitude of crafts awards, there are several program categories being handed out from Reality to Variety to Documentary to Game Shows.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of handed out
Verb
  • As part of his 2021 pandemic relief package, Biden provided $1,400 payments to most Americans, which Strain had warned at the time would spark inflation.
    — BILL BARROW, Arkansas Online, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Boeing and Lockheed Martin at first provided only tentative funding for Vulcan’s development, then ULA waited until 2018 to select an engine for Vulcan, deciding on Blue Origin’s BE-4 over Aerojet Rocketdyne’s AR1.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of provided
Verb
  • The amount of time, money and resources being allocated to developing new cell and gene therapies indicates that the market will continue its rapid growth.
    — Jigar Thakkar, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The deal has also been announced at a time when the NIH has been struggling to issue sufficient grants to use the money that Congress allocated to it.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of allocated
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“Parceled (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parceled%20%28out%29. Accessed 12 Sep. 2026.

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