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• n  the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan
• v  divide into parts
• v  cover with strips of canvas
• v  make into a wrapped container

• Practicing what Silva Henriquez preached about agrarian reform, the Roman Catholic Church in Chile undertook its own land-distribution program, parceling out 13,200 of its own .
• Kerry and Warner have been perhaps the most aggressive in raising money and parceling it out to congressional candidates.
• As six blue-uniformed militiamen armed with automatic weapons struggle to hold back the crowd, a salesclerk begins parceling out portions of a coveted commodity: frozen 1-lb .

• allotment
• apportionment
• apportioning
• allocation
• parcelling
• assignation
• parcel

News & Articles

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• Whistleblower pol’s video shows ‘job bribe’ bid
  The feds are investigating explosive claims that elected officials and power brokers in Rockland County’s Clarkstown bought the support of minor party lines by parceling out jobs to party insiders, The Post has learned. The town’s hiring practices could land it under the microscope of Gov. Cuomo’s...
  July 15, 2013 - New York Post

Quotes

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• Dennis Hollingsworth in San Francisco Chronicle
  I don't think we ought to be parceling out bits and pieces of the Prop. 84 money based on one member's pet projects,Hollingsworth said in a telephone interview.
• George Vecsey in Reuters
  This day never had to come for Barry Bonds. He could have avoided yesterday's indictment by parceling out just enough truth to satisfy a grand jury,columnist George Vecsey wrote in Friday's The New York Times.
• John Kerry in Boston Globe
  It's not my job to start parceling out advice or saying things to people who make a decision that's very personal like that,Kerry said, before reiterating his opposition to gay marriage and support for full, marriage-style benefits for gay...