· the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan; "the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is based on the relative population of each state"
Synonym(s): allotment, apportionment, apportioning, allocation, parceling, assignation
Hypernym(s): distribution
· divide into parts; "The developers parceled the land"
Hypernym(s): divide, split, split_up, separate, dissever, carve_up
· cover with strips of canvas; "parcel rope"
Hypernym(s): cover
· make into a wrapped container