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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

Inside her car they discovered designer sunglasses, cash, multiple items of jewellery, a Rolex watch and a parcel containing fake US dollars.

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

Listing images shed further light on the home’s idyllic setting, revealing the beautiful mountain views, tree-lined parcel, and leafy neighborhood.

From MarketWatch Jul. 2, 2026

Meanwhile, FedEx continues to operate as a more focused parcel delivery network, similar to rival UPS UPS 2.99%increase; up pointing triangle , with its express and ground-delivery units.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

The air smelled like fresh bread, apples, parcel paper, and string, and I saw rows and rows of wrapped chocolates living behind glass.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

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

To check whether specific parcels are included in the ordinance, follow this link and check the box that says “Opportunity Station Sites Eligible for Low Rise.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

Brussels has also taken several steps to protect its market from what it describes as unfair Chinese competition, including slapping extra levies on small parcels from China.

From Barron's May 22, 2026

By matching permits to investor owners, The Times found that plans are on file for two-thirds of their parcels, 50% higher than the overall rate for Altadena.

From Los Angeles Times May 21, 2026

Leopard, who was pleased with herself in her new dress, did not bother to find out where her children were and had no idea that they were inside the parcels which she was carrying.

From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith

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

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

His mail shirt and helm were parceled out.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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

Inside the Weggs’ yellow colonial, on five acres north of Indianapolis, Rodney had been parceling out limited information.

From Seattle Times Apr. 21, 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 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

"I'm thinking of parceling off portions of my brain," I once told her.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

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

At the house, Alvarado filled Cox’s container from a five-gallon blue plastic water jug—ten litres for a hundred dollars, to be parcelled out in bottles that he would sell for three hundred apiece.

From The New Yorker Apr. 4, 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 new distribution may stand for all purposes in lieu of the original parcelling of the land on fresh occupation.

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul




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