share-out

The Spanish Sorteo Extraordinario de Navidad is said to be the world's biggest lottery but, rather than a single jackpot, it aims for a share-out in which thousands of numbers yield prize money.

£84.4m EuroMillions lottery winner emerges to claim prize 2010

It is the only way of ensuring that the Tories 'broad spread of support across the country - far more broadly spread than Labour's - is accurately reflected in the share-out of parliamentary seats.

The Boundary Commission - Shake-up Needed 2006

But the deal has stagnated over the share-out of key ministries, particularly the home affairs ministry which runs the police.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

Tsvangirai met Tuesday but failed to agree on a share-out of ministries in a power-sharing government, the opposition said.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

The proposed share-out of the compensation funds were rejected

ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

Now, in May, there is no share-out, no legislation and even the preliminary agreement is starting to unravel.

The Hard Bigotry of the New York Times 2007

But the explanation for the plenty must be that someone in the pig club had slaughtered an animal that week, and there had been a share-out.

Presumption of Death Sayers, Dorothy L. 2002

Discussions are currently under way in Luanda on the share-out of senior responsibilities in the defence force.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

Piecing it out as best I could, I gathered that Herakleides (whose name no one uttered without a curse) had again brought up at Assembly the share-out of the land.

The Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1966

Pylas was there already; he was too sick for the feast, but would sit to watch the share-out, as anyone would who still had breath in him, if he had Xanthos to deal with.

The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958