divide something between people or things

divide something between people or things
divide something between people or things
to give shares of something to specific people or groups. (In a strict sense, only between two entities. Informally, between two or more.) •

I will have to divide the toys between the two children.

He divided the tasks between the day crew and the night crew.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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