parcel
Pronunciation
[change]- enPR: pärʹ-səl, IPA (key): /ˈpɑrsəl/
- Hyphenation: par‧cel
Noun
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- A package; a box wrapped in paper; a thing bigger than a letter that is sent in the mail.
- On my birthday, I got a parcel in the mail.
- A parcel of land is a piece of land that was part of a larger piece.
Verb
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- If you parcel something out, you divide it into small parts to give to different people.
- The set of books was parcelled out among the people who were there.
- If you parcel something off, you divide it into small parts to be sold to different people.
- If you parcel something up, you make it into a parcel by wrapping it up.