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parcel

[pahr-suhl] / ˈpɑr səl /
NOUN
container prepared to be sent
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NOUN
piece of land
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The property, known as Hazel Green Ranch, is an undeveloped parcel of meadowland.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Citi analyst Ariel Rosa sees value in parcel shipping stocks heading into the holiday shopping season.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

There have also been questions about Amazon parcel logistics, requests to borrow cereal bowls and what tog duvet other people's children were given.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

The estate’s lower parcel expands the compound even further with a stylish one-bedroom guesthouse equipped with its own kitchen, rooftop deck, and basement office and storage spaces.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

He is going over in his mind how the parcel came and how pleased she was.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

Six years ago, 26 rare reptiles - 10 of them dead - smuggled inside parcels of toys and sweets from Mexico, were found by customs officials at Cologne Bonn Airport.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

But cities and towns can shrink that figure: In Houston, for instance, real-estate developers can build on parcels as small as 1,400 square feet.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Residents will retain their post office box numbers and continue picking up parcels downtown.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

According to the Trussell Trust more than 2.2m food parcels were given out in England in 2025, a 56% rise on 2019.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

We unwrap our parcels and hand them over to the women.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

The acres parceled out for Stratos all lie on private, unzoned property, and the landowners there had already granted their blessing.

From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2026

Certain credits are parceled out quarterly or even monthly, and premium cards can have the feel of a coupon book.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025

I scan the little slots until I find mine: a refill of Greek oregano, parceled out in a plastic baggie with a heat-sealed strip.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2025

The bill would create 250,000 green card-eligible family and employment-based visas that would be parceled out over five years.

From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2024

She kept 48 hives strewn through the woods around the pink house, and another 280 were parceled out on various farms, in river yards and upland swamps.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

People are living longer, spending more on themselves and parceling out their riches in smaller doses to children and grandchildren.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

As he grew in each, he assumed the role of the lovelord, parceling it out to all he came across while saving just enough for himself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2022

But the league is also parceling off more rights and three of the next seven Stanley Cup Finals to a secondary bidder.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2021

Narrative agency is what interests the author, her manner of parceling out information evoking at times the fragmentary and diaristic sensibilities of Jenny Offill’s “Dept. of Speculation.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2020

A dark night was falling, one of a different order from the soft, large, kind ones of childhood under the anacahuita tree, Pap£ parceling out futures and Mama fussing at his drinking.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

Golden rice fields stretch across the Vercelli plain between Milan and Turin, a parcelled landscape broken only by the wood and wetlands created by Cerutti, now home to rare birds and insects.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

All of Ruth's clothes and toys were parcelled up in a big box, and she reunited with her whole family who had settled in Nuneaton, Warwickshire.

From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2024

Just open up a page and experience the meditative calm of reading alphabetized lists that are parcelled into neat little sections.

From Slate ● Feb. 14, 2020

His downfall is parcelled out carefully along the way, and each new attempt to escape his fate brings about new and awful consequences.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 20, 2019

That first captain walled their promontory, built their homes and shrines, and parcelled out the black land for the plow.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Congo-Brazzaville's government has already begun parcelling out blocks of land and looking for potential investors, although there is some uncertainty about the extent and significance of the oil reserves.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2022

Given all this filtering and parcelling out, it’s not surprising that memory is imperfect.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2014

And once you begin parcelling out roles rather than wrapping them together in a single nightmare bundle, it gets rather easier to find George Entwistle's successor.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 18, 2012

Popular in Czechoslovakia is the Government's policy of seizing the broad acres of great nobles and parcelling them out among the poor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Few have given the Home Office credit for the amount of interesting and cheap amusement it then afforded by parcelling out the country among the military authorities.

From Essays in Rebellion by Henry W. Nevinson


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