| 单词 | divvy |
| 释义 | divvy (once / 33964 pages) 1v 2n To divvy something is to split it up between two or more people. You might divvy up a pizza among four friends, giving everyone two slices. If you and a friend have a lemonade stand, you'll divvy up the proceeds at the end of the day, sharing the money. You can also divvy other things: "Let's divvy this painting job — you do the trim, and I'll paint the walls." As a noun, a divvy is a share or a part of something — the word, from American English, is a shortened version of dividend, a divided payment, from the Latin dividendum, "thing to be divided." WORD FAMILYdivvy: divvied, divvies, divvys USAGE EXAMPLESExecutives discussed how to divvy up market share to avoiding competing with each other for business, according to the complaint. Seattle Times(Dec 26, 2016) Republicans might be able to divvy up the Democratic Party if they look first to infrastructure or tax reform. Slate(Dec 05, 2016) Save your sanity and make something in a large batch, and divvy it up for your various friends. Seattle Times(Nov 30, 2016) 1 v separate into parts or portions 2Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper carve up, dissever, divide, separate, split, split up unify, unite act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief subdivide divide into smaller and smaller pieces format, initialise, initializedivide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data sectionalise, sectionalizedivide into sections, especially into geographic sections triangulatedivide into triangles or give a triangular form to unitise, unitizedivide (bulk material) and process as units lotdivide into lots, as of land, for example parceldivide into parts sliver, splinterdivide into slivers or splinters paragraphdivide into paragraphs, as of text cantondivide into cantons, of a country Balkanise, Balkanizedivide a territory into small, hostile states change integrity change in physical make-up n short for dividend; especially one paid by a cooperative society Hyper dividend that part of the earnings of a corporation that is distributed to its shareholders; usually paid quarterly |
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