to divvy up
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4.2
- phrasal verb
- Informal
:
repartir
- States can divvy up their electoral votes any way they want.
- divvy up chores
- divvy up the money
- divvy up responsibilities
So even our small small business, we had divvied up the production.
- So even our small small business, we had divvied up the production.
- So last question is, with that being said, like how do you divvy up leads and everything?
- Like it's really hard to kind of quantify and divvy up design development cost per garment.
- And you know, at the time when she did pass should be able to divvy that up a lot easier amongst her family.
- So now we just do all of our projects together and spending time with him brainstorming story and and divvying up writing and working on scripts.
- It's having a census that counts us and divvies up our power and our economic capacity equally and fairly.
- The problem is those songs that they're buying all are licensed, which means come up a year they got a re divvy up funds.
Examples
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Somehow it struck us as funny that while the rest of the world was fixated on marriage, we were divvying up our books and bowls.
Academic text (2001) -
In other words, how is the AAP going to divvy up the money it so eagerly wants?
Blog text (3) -
So something happens at that point, which is they have to deal with how they divvy up the food.
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You can divvy up the rest.
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As you can see, different people have their own ways of divvying up the costs.
Blog text (19) -
So Alan Scott has divvied up the jobs between a few guys.
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Then let's divvy this up and get started.
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What do you say we divvy up the wedding gifts at brunch tomorrow?
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Because the task of handling the response was so monumental, and because so many agencies were responding to the crisis in New York City, top managers chose to divvy up the tasks among city, state, and federal authorities.
Academic text (2003) -
What do you say we divvy up the wedding gifts at brunch tomorrow?
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To let other people use or have part of something
199
1.5
To give out cards or other things to people
165
1.8
To give something to people in a group
143
2.3
To hand things to several people
87
2.0
Give things to several people or places
68
2.7
To give things to people in a group, like papers or drinks
34
4.0
To give small amounts of something to several people over time
32
2.1
Hand something to each person in a group
28
3.4
To give out things to several people, often food or advice
19
3.7
To give medicine or other things to people at a pharmacy
15
7.3
To share something among a group of people
14
5.8
To divide something into parts to share between people
8
7.0
To divide something and give parts to different people or groups
6
5.3
To divide something into parts to give out
3
3.2
To give things to several people, often one by one, like cards
3
3.0
To give parts of something to different people
3
4.8
To divide something into parts and give each part to different people
1
4.2
To give people small set amounts of things like food or water when supplies are low
1
3.4
To divide something into parts and give each part to different people
Antonyms
How Distributed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The base verb 'divvy' means to apportion or distribute, and the particle 'up' adds the sense of dividing/completing the action; together they transparently yield 'divide or distribute among people.' This follows a common verb + up compositional pattern in English, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Divvy up comes from a short, everyday form of the verb 'divide'. People would say divvy when they split something into parts and add up to show giving those parts out, so divvy up means 'to divide and give out' or 'to share'.