divvy

verb

div·vy ˈdi-vē

divvied; divvying; divvies

transitive verb

: divide, share

divvy a pie

Between now and then, managing the divestiture will eat up much of Allen's time—he must divvy tens of billions of dollars in assets …—

David Kirkpatrick

Instead of divvying the spoils of a $12-$18 CD sale, labels, artists and songwriters are vying for nickels and dimes from 99 cent downloads.—

Brian Garrity

—usually used with up

We divvied up the chores.

Money is easier to divvy up than property, …—

Susan E. Kuhn

When the time comes to divvy up the school funding pie, maintenance departments wait patiently in line for their slice of resources.—

Mike Kennedy

Early evidence suggests there has been a significant shift in how fiscal responsibilities are divvied up among the federal government, and state and local governments.—

Grant A. Driessen and Joseph S. Hughes

Examples of divvy in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web After the prize money has been divvied up among the top finishers, a payout of about $1.2 million will go to the first-place winner. —

Emma Bowman, NPR, 8 June 2024 Some 14,000 student-athletes who played and learned from 2016 to today will divvy up $2.8 billion in damages from the name, image and likeness money they were denied, and, going forward, schools will figure out how to divide around $20 million a year in a historic revenue-sharing arrangement. —

New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 30 May 2024 The two investment areas might seem unrelated, but in many ways they are connected, especially as most people must make choices in terms of how to divvy up their investment dollars. —

Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 24 Mar. 2024 Evaporation and percolation take most of it, leaving about 80 million acre-feet to be divvied up among three major uses. —

Dan Walters, Orange County Register, 7 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for divvy

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