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parcel

noun

1 a parcel of food and clothes:

package, packet;

pack, carton, bundle, box, case, bale;

archaic fardel.

2 a 21-acre parcel of land:

plot, piece, patch, tract, area, section, allotment;

North American lot, plat.

3 a parcel of rogues:

group, band, pack, gang, crowd, mob, company, collection, horde, party, troop;

informal crew, bunch.

verb

1 she parceled up the papers:

pack, pack up, package, wrap, wrap up, gift-wrap, tie up, do up, box, box up, bundle up, fasten together.

2 parceling out commercial farmland in small plots will reduce productivity:

divide up, portion out, distribute, share out, allocate, allot, apportion, hand out, give out, deal out, dole out, mete out, dispense, split up, carve up;

informal divvy up, dish out.