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parcel

[pahr-suhl]

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noun

an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.

a quantity or unit of something, as of a commodity for sale; lot.

a group, collection, or assemblage of persons or things.

a distinct, continuous portion or tract of land.

a part, portion, or fragment.

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verb (used with object)

to divide into or distribute in parcels or portions (usually followed by out).

to make into a parcel or wrap as a parcel.

Nautical. to cover or wrap (a rope) with strips of canvas.

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adverb

Archaic. in part; partially.

Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English < Middle French parcelle < Late Latin *particella, fresh formation for Latin particula; see particle, passel

Related forms

un·par·celed, adjective

un·par·celled, adjective

un·par·cel·ling, adjective

Synonyms
1. See package. 3. batch, assortment. 6. mete, apportion, deal, allot.

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Example Sentences

The art, alas, looks as if it's part and parcel of that crisis.

Several forums exist both to offer such services and parcel out jobs.

Explain that they will have an opportunity to be the decision-makers regarding a hypothetical parcel of public land.

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The art, alas, looks as if it's part and parcel of that crisis.

Several forums exist both to offer such services and parcel out jobs.

Explain that they will have an opportunity to be the decision-makers regarding a hypothetical parcel of public land.

Regardless of how they came to be there, crabs have unfortunately become part and parcel of our species' pubis.

Split into quadrants, each section is engraved with the seal of the state, laying claim to its parcel of disk.

The two approaches are tricky to accomplish on the average suburban parcel.

In the past, a good deal of privacy was part and parcel of physical reality.

Teaching students how to think and how to learn is part and parcel of education.

Such companies have lots of capital invested in their global networks, and they offer both parcel and express-delivery services.

Image captured in parcel calm waters close to the shore break looking upwards.

Iced tea is part and parcel of my existence-a sweet and robust ying to my yang.

Her supervisor had insisted she get a signature since the parcel was actually addressed to someone else.

Music and its enjoyment were part and parcel of the spirit.

The battery pack is visible on the trunk's parcel shelf.

As part of a government program, he has also given up a parcel of land to be reforested.

The issue: how to parcel out a dwindling water supply.

Parcel man kept a straight face, despite our appearances.

They'd download the parcel onto a card and lock it with a thumbprint.

He buried each parcel and packed up the leftover dirt in the plastic sheet.

The buyer will improve the parcel with a funeral home for his own occupancy.

With few exceptions, a water right goes with a certain parcel of land.

Laws of inheritance that are part and parcel of the theory of evolution.

The charming two-story house at the front of the parcel has old-world.

Corporate selfishness is part and parcel of many corporations nowadays.

As airlines know to their cost, stress is part and parcel of flying, in whatever part of the cabin you are travelling.

The fixation is part and parcel of the trend toward corporate governance in academe over the last few decades.

The problem is the presumptions and context that is never directly said but is part and parcel in symbolic communication.

Millions of dollars more support airlines and parcel shippers”.

So we're not entirely innocent victims, we're part and parcel of this system.

It is becoming the norm for bosses to sell a parcel of shares every quarter.

In practice, it is hard to parcel out the blame between technology and globalisation, because the two are so intertwined.

Brooks says that this kind of problem is part and parcel of trying to breed animals with certain tightly defined characteristics.

Indeed, it is a trait that is part and parcel of effective leadership at any time.

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World English Dictionary

parcel (ˈpɑːs^əl)

—n
1.	something wrapped up; package
2.	a group of people or things having some common characteristic
3.	a quantity of some commodity offered for sale; lot
4.	a distinct portion of land
5.	an essential part of something (esp in the phrase part and parcel)

—vb , -cels, -celling, -celled, -cels, -celing, -celed
6.	(often foll by up) to make a parcel of; wrap up
7.	(often foll by out) to divide (up) into portions
8.	nautical to bind strips of canvas around (a rope)

—*adv*
9.	an archaic word for partly

[C14: from Old French parcelle, from Latin particulaparticle]

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Word Origin & History

parcel

c.1300, "part" (sense preserved in phrase parcel of land), from O.Fr. parcelle "small piece, particle, parcel," from V.L. *particella, dim. of L. particula, dim. of pars (gen. partis) "part" (see part). Meaning "package" is first recorded c.1645. The verb meaning "to divide

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into small portions" is from 1584.

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Idioms & Phrases

parcel

In addition to the idiom beginning with parcel, also see part and parcel.

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