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parcelling::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, assignation, parceling |
| Type of | distribution |
| Has types | grant, parcel, portion, rationing, reallocation, reallotment, reapportionment, share, subsidisation, deal, subsidization |
| Derivation | parcel |
Examples of parcelling
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Amazon can cut shipping costs by parcelling together different types of purchase.
From the economist.com
It does this by parcelling out the tasks to numerous computers at once.
From the economist.com
When resources become scarce, the quarrels about parcelling them out become that much more intense.
From the economist.com
The idea is that it would take SME loans off the banks'hands, parcelling them up for sale on the bond markets.
From the independent.co.uk
But the advent of algorithmic trading led to computer programs explicitly designed to detect such parcelling strategies.
From the economist.com
If governments never got round to parcelling out the Arctic, that was partly because harsh conditions seemed to preclude most economic activity.
From the economist.com
Another approach has been to borrow from the American model, parcelling out the good bits of failing banks to solvent rivals and keeping the rest.
From the economist.com
It was a way of measuring and parcelling it out, though, in the process, allowing those who controlled the resources to play all sorts of tricks and games.
From the guardian.co.uk
In the Gulf, ruling families followed the lead of Saudi Arabia, keeping all the important reins in their own hands while parcelling out patronage to friends and loyalists.
From the economist.com
- Package: a wrapped container
- Divide into parts; "The developers parceled the land"
- Cover with strips of canvas; "parcel rope"
- The allotment of some amount by dividing something; "death gets more than its share of attention from theologians"
- Tract: an extended area of land
- Package: a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
- A package wrapped for shipment; A division of land bought and sold as a unit; A group of birds; A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry; To wrap something up into the form of a package; To wrap a strip around the end of a rope
- (Parcelling) This is wrapping narrow strips of tarred canvas round a rope.
- (Parcels) fugitives to be expected
