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- verb UK Simple past tense and past participle of
parcel .
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Examples
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It will also be able to retain income from social housing rather than as at present remit it to central government only for it to be parcelled out back again.
Localism rules OK 2011
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Or, perhaps, it will be parcelled in the fracture of promise, coded in the cold fear that for us it may not come at all.
Magnetic Soup Wagon Donal Thompson 2010
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That moment came as Arts Council England, which administers most of the public funding for the arts in Britain, parcelled out what was left after its funding was cut by 30% in the autumn spending review.
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BP watched from the sidelines Tuesday as the very same tracts of Russia's Kara Sea that it seemingly won in a landmark deal announced in January were instead parcelled out to archrival Exxon.
Exxon's Arctic Deal Is Black Eye for BP Guy Chazan 2011
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For example, the expert-led model where knowledge is highly centralized and parcelled out from the North to the South is out-dated.
Rahim Kanani: Aleem Walji of the World Bank Institute's Innovation Team on the Future of International Development Rahim Kanani 2011
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The biggest so far of the Unwrapped series, it runs through the year, some 40 concerts parcelled up into 11 week-long strands.
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More than £1.5bn of the care and support budget administered by English councils, almost £1 in every £7, is now parcelled out in personal budgets.
Are direct payments for social care still living up to their name? 2011
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Prostitutes and theives and hardship all parcelled up with sumptuous descriptions sounds so good.
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Once the GP idea has failed, sell these conveniently parcelled bits of the NHS to Initial Healthcare and the like.3.
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For example, the expert-led model where knowledge is highly centralized and parcelled out from the North to the South is out-dated.
Rahim Kanani: Aleem Walji of the World Bank Institute's Innovation Team on the Future of International Development Rahim Kanani 2011
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