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- noun Plural form of
parcel . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
parcel .
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Examples
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The supply of Red Cross parcels is well organised; there are several weeks stock in every district.
Red Cross Report 2010
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It is currently at the center of a legal and political battle inside of Israel over certain parcels of land and housing units — at a time when the United States and other countries have placed a higher priority on the settlement question.
Wonk Room » Ramallah And Ofra: Just Down The Road, But A World Apart 2009
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UNRWA reported that yesterday (3 Feb 2009) Hamas armed assailants took at gunpoint 3500 blankets and 406 food parcels from the UNRWA distribution center at the beach refugee camp (Shati).
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Those which exist are furnished almost entirely by the medical parcels from the British Red Cross.
Work Camp 10049 GW 2010
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Inequality and disadvantage don't come neatly packaged in parcels marked age, or disability, or gender, or race.
Equality report slams divided Britain Anushka Asthana 2010
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There are quite a number of next-of-kin parcels arriving now; there was a race meeting and an open air concert last week in aid of Red Cross funds, and although the weather was quite threatening,
Letters Home 2010
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They had not received any food parcels from the Netherlands or Switzerland, and threatened to evacuate the camp in force and seize the city unless they were repatriated within five days.
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The Red Triangle supplies were supplemented by parcels from the Norwegian Relief Committee, which included
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This number steadily grew as Wilson reported that he was shipping thirty thousand parcels from the Danish warehouse on a monthly basis by the beginning of 1918.
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Hoffman visited these men and arranged for the American YMCA to send them food parcels from the Copenhagen WPA Office on a regular basis. 7
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