to divvy
- verb
- /ˈdɪvi/
- Informal
- The other card players pick the fat man's pockets and divvy up his winnings.
And the bigger you get in the the bigger the company, the more divvied up it is.
- And the bigger you get in the the bigger the company, the more divvied up it is.
- They kind of just, you know, divvy that meat out to, you know, orphans, probably things like that.
- 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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In other words, how is the AAP going to divvy up the money it so eagerly wants?
Blog text (3) -
There, lawmakers divvy up the territory.
Academic text (2011) -
So last question is, with that being said, like how do you divvy up leads and everything?
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So something happens at that point, which is they have to deal with how they divvy up the food.
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- How we going to, uh, divvy this up right here?
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You can divvy up the rest.
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Then let's divvy this up and get started.
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So the most practical way to exploit the new resources opened up by Blue Hole technology was to divvy up responsibilities.
Fiction book (2000) -
What do you say we divvy up the wedding gifts at brunch tomorrow?
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We need to divvy up the tasks among all team members before the project starts.
Synonyms
To split something into parts or groups
To give out cards or other things to people
Give things to several people or places
To give things to people in a group, like papers or drinks
To give small amounts of something to several people over time
Hand something to each person in a group
To divide something into parts to share between people
Share things or money between several people
To divide something and give parts to different people or groups
To divide something into parts to give out
To give parts of something to different people
To divide something into parts and give each part to different people
To divide something into parts and give each part to different people
To divide something into parts according to a set share
To divide something into smaller parts so more people can own it
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Etymology
Divvy as a verb comes from the word divide and means to 'share' or 'split' something among people. So to divvy something is to give out parts to each person, like when you 'divvy up' the pizza.