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Definition of parceled : of Parcel

Synonyms:

dispensed, portioned, measured, divided, allocated, meted, gave, distributed, budgeted, assigned, shared, segmented, partitioned, split, allowed, cut, earmarked, dealt, rationed, sliced, set, apportioned, allotted, given

half, zoned, compartmented, halved, subdivided, fraction, dismembered, compartmentalized, pieced, chunked

Usage examples:

• As she carefully parceled out the wool to the slaves, watching over them lest they steal or waste it, and frequently taking her place among them while they were at work, she felt that she too contributed to the prosperity and the glory of the empire. - "The Women of the Caesars", Guglielmo Ferrero.
• There are twenty- two families living on that plantation now, most of them growing rich or well- to- do by the cultivation of the little truck farms into which the broad acres have been parceled out. - "Recollections of a Varied Life", George Cary Eggleston.
• For years it has been a superb range for cattle, and up till the coming of the first settlements on the Cannon Ball, it had been parceled out among a few big firms, who cut Government timber, dug Government stone, and pastured on Government grass. - "The Eagle's Heart", Hamlin Garland.