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parcel out

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parcel out something
to give parts of something to different people. The bookkeeper spent yesterday parceling out the profits from the deal. The settlement is very small and I'm glad I'm not the one who has to parcel it out.
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Flambeau tore a brown-paper parcel out of his inner pocket and rent it in pieces.
"Come," he said, "you can have no sympathy with Reginald Brott, the sworn enemy of our class, a Socialist, a demagogue who would parcel out our lands in allotments, a man who has pledged himself to nothing more nor less than a revolution.
Franklin, pulling a little sealed paper parcel out of his pocket, "that 'It' means THIS.
 
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