divvying up

Parceling among recipients

Divvying up is the act of dividing something among several people, typically in roughly equal shares: We spent an hour divvying up the leftover supplies.

The phrase suggests informal, practical distribution rather than precise allocation.

To divvy up responsibilities is to split them among group members.

Related

doling out · allocation · apportionment · partitioning · cutting up · rationing · giving out · fair share · fairness · going halves · proportionality · piece of the action · prioritizing · budgeting · compromise · scheduling · spoils · equality

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Opposites
distribution vs. accumulation

divvying uphoarding

Excessive accumulation of goods

amassing · accumulating · stockpiling · consolidating · monopolizing

separation vs. combination

divvying upcombining

Joining multiple elements

merging · pooling · uniting · consolidating · aggregating

Family

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G