lotting
Splitting into shares
Lotting is the process of dividing something into lots—portions or parcels for sale, distribution, or auction.
Real estate developers lot land into building sites.
Auction houses lot collections into numbered items for bidding: The estate's furniture required careful lotting before the sale.
The term appears most often in commercial and legal contexts.
Offering prices or obeying
- consignmentBatch delivered for selling
- catalogOrdered list of items
- estateProperty and grounds
- collectiblesItems people amass
inventory · grouping · parceling · bundling · appraisal · auctioneer · hammer · reserve
Portion of something larger
- parcelWrapped item for shipping
- surveyingMeasuring and charting terrain
- zoningSectioning areas by use
- cadastreProperty tax record system
platting · demarcation · boundary · allocation · mapping · acreage · tract · sectioning
bidding
Offering prices or obeying
- consignmentBatch delivered for selling
- catalogOrdered list of items
- estateProperty and grounds
collectibles · inventory · grouping · parceling · bundling · appraisal · auctioneer · hammer · reserve · wholesale
subdivision
Portion of something larger
cadastre · platting · demarcation · boundary · allocation · mapping · acreage · tract · sectioning · apportionment
lottingconsolidating
Combining dispersed elements
combining · merging · aggregating · pooling · bundling
lottingconsolidation
Combining into unified whole
amalgamating · integrating · synthesizing · fusing · coalescing