parcelling
/ˈpɑrsəlɪŋ/
verb
- Present participle of parcel: to divide or distribute something into parts.
- The company is parcelling the land into residential plots.
- She is parcelling the leftover food into containers for the freezer.
- They are parcelling out the tasks among the team members.
noun
- The act of dividing something into parts or portions, especially land.
- Parcelling the farmland allowed each child to inherit a piece.
- The parcelling of the estate into smaller lots took several months.
- The city approved the parcelling of the old factory site for new homes.