PARCEL OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does parcel out mean? 

• PARCEL OUT (verb)
  The verb PARCEL OUT has 1 sense:

1. administer or bestow, as in small portions

  Familiarity information: PARCEL OUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARCEL OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Administer or bestow, as in small portions

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

administer; allot; deal; deal out; dish out; dispense; distribute; dole out; lot; mete out; parcel out; shell out

Context example:

the machine dispenses soft drinks

Hypernyms (to "parcel out" is one way to...):

give (transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "parcel out"):

allot; assign; portion (give out)

reallot (allot again)

deal (distribute cards to the players in a game)

apply; give (give or convey physically)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

 Context examples 

Traddles's house is one of the very houses—or it easily may have been—which he and Sophy used to parcel out, in their evening walks.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

At this moment I discover that I forgot to take my parcel out of the pocket of the coach, where I had placed it for safety; there it remains, there it must remain; and now, I am absolutely destitute.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)