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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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With its combination of celebrity ownership, rich entertainment history, and unusually large parcel of land in the Hollywood Hills, the estate represents one of the area’s rare legacy properties.

From MarketWatch Jul. 13, 2026

China’s higher parcel volume also seems resilient, given the company’s full-year guidance of 10% growth and muted sector growth, they add.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

However, that out-of-date abode is located on a stunning parcel of land that covers more than 16 acres, including 4-plus acres of “income-producing Cabernet Sauvignon,” according to its previous listing.

From MarketWatch Jul. 2, 2026

The parcel carrier is scheduled to report fiscal 2026 fourth-quarter earnings after the closing bell Wednesday.

From Barron's Jun. 23, 2026

Then they had all turned up one day at his home address in Canada in one big parcel.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

She runs an organisation supporting other women who have been detained, and, using a secret network, helps send parcels from families to those still in captivity.

From BBC Jul. 6, 2026

The EU has taken several measures to confront soaring imports from China including doubling its duties on foreign steel, slapping higher levies on small parcels from abroad and hefty tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles.

From Barron's Jun. 29, 2026

On a sunny February day, a group of a half dozen neighbors lined up for Red Cross parcels of essentials such as food and hygiene products.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

During a series of hearings, witnesses called as development experts pored over maps of the campus to identify several parcels to spread the housing into separate villages.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 10, 2026

And she began to search hurriedly through the parcels she was carrying, to see what she could spare for Maia.

From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers

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

A bare-bones framework of an agreement, sketched out on a single sheet of paper, the deal promises $125 million for a journalism fund that will be parceled out to local newsrooms over five years.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 20, 2024

General Ryder said that 569 metric tons of aid had made it onto Gaza’s shore but that those supplies had yet to be parceled out by humanitarian organizations.

From New York Times May 21, 2024

But when the lands that the agrarian reform had parceled out were returned to their former owners, they were reassured: things were returning to the good old days.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

In the run-up to “One Battle After Another,” DiCaprio played the traditional role of the elusive movie star, parceling out access and promotional appearances.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 12, 2026

Front-line nurses, already parceling out a few minutes an hour to each patient under their care, say juggling unfamiliar products or adjusting to workarounds makes their jobs even more fraught.

From Seattle Times Jan. 29, 2022

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 parliamentary investigative committee questioned Akoub about that deal, as well as real-estate repossession and the parceling off of state land.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 11, 2019

Or was it just more of the same parceling out of fortunes that had brought us this far, to this place where our path would finally divide into two?

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

Individual land ownership is often ineffectual for forests and rangelands, which lose their value when parcelled up.

From Economist Jul. 14, 2016

“When a beloved parent dies, what is being parcelled out may look like goods and chattels, but it feels a lot like love,” she wrote.

From The Guardian Jun. 12, 2015

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

The lands remaining after this parcelling out, generally the poorest, formed the waste lands of the manor, over which rights of commons were enjoyed by the tenants.

From Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers by Various




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