parceled out

1. 1.

   given out in portions

   Synonymsapportioneddealt outdoled outmeted out

   Similardistributed

Questions about parceled out

What does parceled out mean?

parceled out means "given out in portions".

What is another word for parceled out?

Close synonyms include apportioned, dealt out, doled out, meted out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is parceled out a common word?

parceled out is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.